“I feel like half a woman all the time”: The impacts of coerced and forced sterilisations on HIV-positive women in South Africa

Agenda

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 24-34

  Essack, Zaynab ^a   Strode, Ann ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

coerced sterilisation; forced sterilisation; HIV positive women; stigma and discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 85080345354     PISSN: 10130950     EISSN: 2158978X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2012.708583     Document Type: Article

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