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Doi Moi and the Political Economy of Men’s Extramarital Sexual Relations and Marital HIV Risk in Hanoi, Vietnam

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11021590
AutoresHarriet M Phinney (At the time of the study, the author was with the Anthropology Department, University of Washington, Seattle. At the study’s completion she was with the Department of Anthropology, Seattle University, Seattle., autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen98
Número4
Páginas650-660
Fecha de publicación2008-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditorialAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2007.111534
PMID18309136
PMCIDPMC2376991
OpenAlexW1986006459
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas45
Referencias citadas6

Research from around the world has suggested that married women’s greatest risk for contracting HIV is from having sexual intercourse with their husbands. On the basis of 6 months of ethnographic research in Hanoi, Vietnam, I argue that the contemporary nature of the HIV epidemic in Hanoi is shaped by 3 interrelated policies implemented in 1986 as part of the government’s new economic policy, Doi Moi (Renovation). Together, these policies structure men’s opportunities for extramarital sexual relations and encourage wives to acquiesce to their husbands’ sexual infidelity, putting both at risk of HIV. I propose 4 structural intervention strategies that address the policies that contribute to men’s opportunities for extramarital liaisons and to marital HIV risk

Environmental health · Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Marital status · Political science · Politics · Population · HIV Research and Treatment · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Law · Medicine · Sex work and related issues