When HIV-Prevention Messages and Gender Norms Clash: The Impact of Domestic Violence on Women's HIV Risk in Slums of Chennai, India

@article{Go2004WhenHM,
  title={When HIV-Prevention Messages and Gender Norms Clash: The Impact of Domestic Violence on Women's HIV Risk in Slums of Chennai, India},
  author={Vivian F Go and C. Johnson Sethulakshmi and Margaret E. Bentley and Sudha Sivaram and Aylur Kailasom Srikrishnan and Suniti Solomon and David D Celentano},
  journal={AIDS and Behavior},
  year={2004},
  volume={7},
  pages={263-272}
}
This paper examines how marital violence affects women's ability to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. In-depth interviews (n = 48) and focus groups (n = 84, 3–7 per group) were conducted among men and women in two randomly selected slums of Chennai, India. The study showed that community gender norms tacitly sanction domestic violence that interferes with adopting HIV-preventive behaviors. Given the choice between the immediate threat of violence and the relatively hypothetical specter of HIV… 
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