"Bend a fish when the fish is not yet dry": adolescent boys' perceptions of sexual risk in Tanzania.

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Published in Arch Sex Behav on January 13, 2015

Authors

Marni Sommer1, Samuel Likindikoki, Sylvia Kaaya

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, Room 537, 722 W. 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA, ms2778@columbia.edu.

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