Are HIV positive women who have sex with women (WSW) an unrecognized and neglected HIV risk group in South Africa?

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dc.date.accessioned 2011-02-09 en
dc.date.accessioned 2023-07-24T16:01:19Z
dc.date.available 2023-07-24T16:01:19Z
dc.date.issued 2015-08-25 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3942
dc.description.abstract South Africa is home to the largest population of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Of this population gender non-conforming women like women who have sex with women (WSW) remain undocumented. This study is an attempt to fill this information gap as it describes the demographic, health and sexual behaviours of 72 HIV positive WSW. The data indicate that WSW are not protected from HIV because of their same sex desires. These findings suggest the need to include WSW as a most at risk group for both HIV prevention and treatment programmes. en
dc.format.medium Print en
dc.subject LESBIANS en
dc.subject HIV/AIDS en
dc.subject HIV/AIDS PREVENTION en
dc.subject SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR en
dc.subject RISK BEHAVIOUR en
dc.subject WOMEN en
dc.title Are HIV positive women who have sex with women (WSW) an unrecognized and neglected HIV risk group in South Africa? en
dc.type Journal Article en
dc.description.version Y en
dc.ProjectNumber N/A en
dc.Volume 2(8) en
dc.BudgetYear 2010/11 en
dc.ResearchGroup HIV/AIDS, STIs and TB en
dc.SourceTitle Journal of AIDS and HIV Research en
dc.ArchiveNumber 6672 en
dc.PageNumber Online en
dc.outputnumber 5323 en
dc.bibliographictitle Cloete, A., Sanger, N. & Simbayi, L.C. (2010) Are HIV positive women who have sex with women (WSW) an unrecognized and neglected HIV risk group in South Africa?. Journal of AIDS and HIV Research. 2(8):Online. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3942 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3942 en
dc.publicationyear 2010 en
dc.contributor.author1 Cloete, A. en
dc.contributor.author2 Sanger, N. en
dc.contributor.author3 Simbayi, L.C. en


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