Gender-Based Power and Couples' HIV Risk in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, North India.

CONCLUSIONS: If the associations identified in this study reflect a causal relationship between gender-based power and HIV risk behavior, then HIV prevention programs that successfully address inequitable gender roles may reduce HIV risks in North India. PMID: 25565347 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25565347?dopt=Abstract

Source: International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health - January 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Int Perspect Sex Reprod Health Source Type: research

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