Determinants of individual AIDS risk perception: knowledge, behavioural control and social influence
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Determinants of individual AIDS risk perception: knowledge, behavioural control and social influence.
In sub-Saharan Africa an almost universal awareness of the serious consequences of AIDS and of the sexual transmission of HIV co-exists together with a reluctance in adopting consequent preventive measures, in the form of protected sexual intercourse. The socio-psychological literature on health-related behaviour emphasises the perception of being at risk of HIV infection as being one of the ne...
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عنوان ژورنال: African Journal of AIDS Research
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1608-5906,1727-9445
DOI: 10.2989/16085906.2002.9626551