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HIV prevention: mapping Mozambican people’s views on the acceptability of the widow’s sexual cleansing ritual called pita-kufa

BACKGROUND: In Mozambique, the widow is traditionally required to undergo a cleansing ritual called pita-kufa, which generally involves several sessions of unprotected sexual intercourse with the brother of her deceased husband. This ritual may play a role in the spread of HIV and reveals, to some d...

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Autores principales: Vera Cruz, Germano, Mateus, Aniceto, Dlamini, Priscilla S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6149074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30236108
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12914-018-0177-z