Transactional sex amongst young people in rural northern Tanzania: an ethnography of young women's motivations and negotiation.

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Published in Reprod Health on April 29, 2010

Authors

Joyce Wamoyi1, Daniel Wight, Mary Plummer, Gerry Hilary Mshana, David Ross

Author Affiliations

1: National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania. jwamoyi@hotmail.com.

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