Young Women at Risk: Sexuality at a Time of Transition in Ukraine (Research Brief)

My research focuses on describing and assessing the micro-level (family, peers, school, workplace, community environment) and macro-level (economic, social, political) cultural contexts of young women’s lives and the identification of and analysis of the impact of social, economic and cultural factors on the health risk behavior (particularly sexual risk) of young women in Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

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Martha Bojko, of the University of Connecticut, was a 2001-02 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) fellow.