Learning from the past: young Indigenous people's accounts of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections as resilience narratives
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Learning from the Past: young Indigenous people’s accounts of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections in Australia
The Indigenous Resilience Project is an Australian community-based participatory research project using qualitative methods to explore young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s views of blood borne viral and sexually transmitted infections (BBV/STI) affecting their communities. In this paper we present an analysis of narratives from young people who had a previous BBV/STI diagnosis t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Culture, Health & Sexuality
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1369-1058,1464-5351
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2010.520742