Material deprivation and unemployment affect coercive sex among young people in the urban slums of Blantyre, Malawi: A multi-level approach.

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Published in Health Place on March 24, 2015

Authors

Mphatso Kamndaya1, Lawrence N Kazembe2, Jo Vearey3, Caroline W Kabiru4, Liz Thomas5

Author Affiliations

1: School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, 27 St Andrews Road, Parktown, 2193 Johannesburg, South Africa. Electronic address: mkamndaya@cartafrica.org.
2: Department of Statistics & Population Studies, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia. Electronic address: lkazembe@yahoo.com.
3: African Centre for Migration and Society, School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Electronic address: jovearey@gmail.com.
4: Population Dynamics and Reproductive Health Research Program, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya. Electronic address: carolinekabiru@gmail.com.
5: School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, 27 St Andrews Road, Parktown, 2193 Johannesburg, South Africa. Electronic address: Liz.Thomas@wits.ac.za.

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