Intimate partner violence and HIV in ten sub-Saharan African countries: What do the Demographic and Health Surveys tell us?

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages e34-e43

  Durevall, Dick ^a   Lindskog, Annika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMOTIONAL ABUSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MARRIAGE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PHYSICAL VIOLENCE; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; DEMOGRAPHY; HIV INFECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84919479648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70343-2     Document Type: Article

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