Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 11, Issue 22 , Pages 113-121 , November 2003

Between Personal Wishes and Medical “Prescription”: Mode of Delivery and Post-Partum Sterilisation among Women with HIV in Brazil

  • Daniela Riva Knauth

      Affiliations

    • Professor, Department of Social Medicine, Rio Grande do Sul Federal University, and Researcher, Research Unit in Anthropology of the Body and of Health (NUPACS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
    • ,
  • Regina Maria Barbosa

      Affiliations

    • Researcher, Population Studies Center (NEPO), Campinas State University (Unicamp), and Researcher, Training and Reference Centre for STD/AIDS, São Paulo State Health Department, São Paulo, Brazil
    • ,
  • Kristine Hopkins

      Affiliations

    • Population Research Center, University of Texas, Austin TX, USA

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PII: S0968-8080(03)22100-5

doi: 10.1016/S0968-8080(03)22100-5

Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 11, Issue 22 , Pages 113-121 , November 2003

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