Session 40:
The behavioural dimension of the HIV epidemic: risks, perceptions and behaviours
Chair: Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, World Health Organization (WHO)
Feelings of invulnerability and identity change in the face of seropositivity: a socio-anthropological analysis of the gaps between the perception of risk and identification of status of a person infected by HIV/AIDS in the French Caribbean Stéphanie Mulot, Université Aix-Marseille 3, Paul Cézanne
Sexual behaviour and perceptions of risk: male rural-urban migrants in Tanzania Ernestina E. Coast, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Psychosocial self-assessments of HIV prevention behaviour and perceptions of risk in multiple cultures Lawrence J. Severy, University of Florida
The construction of self-assessed HIV/AIDS infection likelihood: an examination from rural Malawi Philip A. Anglewicz, University of Pennsylvania ; Hans-Peter Kohler, University of Pennsylvania
Understanding pathways: exploring social capital measures and their links to health outcomes Fiona Samuels, International HIV/AIDS Alliance ; Sam Mcpherson, International HIV/AIDS Alliance ; Pepukai Chikukwa, International HIV/AIDS Alliance ; Juan Pablo Gutierrez, National Institute of Public Health ; Steffano Bertozzi, National Institute of Public Health ; Lalit Dandona, College of India ; Rakhi Dandona, College of India
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