5067.0: Wednesday, October 24, 2001: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Oral Session

Qualitative Approaches to Understanding Reproductive Health

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Presider(s):Pamela Erickson, PhD
8:30 AMCultural constructions of sexuality: The meanings of marital infidelity and STD/HIV risk in a mexican migrant community
Jennifer S. Hirsch, PhD, Jennifer Higgins, Margaret E. Bentley, PhD, Constance A. Nathanson, PhD
8:45 AM‘Because he misses his normal life back home': Sexuality, Loneliness, and AIDS-risk Behavior among Mexican migrants in Atlanta
Jennifer S. Hirsch, PhD, Kathryn Yount, PhD, Hrishikesh Chakraborty, DrPh, Christina Nyhus
9:00 AMUnderstanding fertility behavior: Low-income African-American and White women’s cultural construction of the body, reproductive physiology and health
Michele G. Shedlin, PhD, Cynthia Woodsong, PhD, Helen P. Koo, DrPH
9:15 AMExploring the complexities of pregnancy intention for African American women
Nadine Peacock, PhD, Kristin Lahurd, Hilkka Abicht, Melissa Gilliam, MD, Anu Kumar, PhD, Stacie Geller, PhD, Cynthia Summers
9:30 AMSexual and Contraceptive behaviour of married women in Bangladesh
M.E. Khan, Shampa De Costa
9:45 AMExploring the relationship of sexuality to female genital cutting (FGC) among the Afar people of Ethiopia
Asmelash Woldemariam, MA
Sponsor:Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health
Cosponsors:HIV/AIDS; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA