Gender and sexuality: emerging perspectives from the heterosexual epidemic in South Africa and implications for HIV risk and prevention

Research shows that gender power inequity in relationships and intimate partner violence places women at enhanced risk of HIV infection. Men who have been violent towards their partners are more likely to have HIV. Men's behaviours show a clustering of violent and risky sexual practices, sugges...

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Main Authors: Rachel Jewkes, Robert Morrell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2010-01-01
Series:Journal of the International AIDS Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/1758-2652-13-6