Relationship Power and Sexual Violence Among HIV-Positive Women in Rural Uganda

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2045-2053

  Conroy, Amy A ^a   Tsai, Alexander C ^b   Clark, Gina M ^c   Boum, Yap ^d   Hatcher, Abigail M ^e,f   Kawuma, Annet ^d   Hunt, Peter W ^f   Martin, Jeffrey N ^f   Bangsberg, David R ^b,g   Weiser, Sheri D ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^d MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; HIV AIDS; Relationship power; Sexual violence; Transactional sex

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREVENTION; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; TRANSACTIONAL SEX; UGANDA; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIAL STIGMA; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX OFFENSES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STIGMA; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962779924     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: 15733254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-016-1385-y     Document Type: Article

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