BACKGROUND Transmission of HIV from intra-venous drug users (IDUs) to the community occurs predominantly through high-risk sexual behaviors. Limited information exists regarding the high-risk sexual behaviors of IDUs in Iran. AIM The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with having multiple sexual partners among Iranian IDUs. METHODS This is a national su...

Cameroon has a high concentration of out-of-school youths. Therefore research relating to out-of-school adolescents and HIV/AIDS is imperative. The aim of the study was to investigate the perception of risk of contracting HIV/AIDS and its association with multiple sexual partners among out-of-school youths in Kumba, the Southwest region of Cameroon. A cross sectional study was adopted using a s...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of patient defined non-regular sexual relationships and other risk behaviours on the incidence of sexually transmitted infections in heterosexual men and the role of condom use in the prevention of their spread. DESIGN A prospective cross sectional study of sexual behaviour reported by a standardised self administered questionnaire in new patients who presented...

CONTEXT Contraceptive knowledge and use at first sex have increased over time among Jamaican adolescents, yet high unintended pregnancy rates persist. More information on risk factors for adolescent pregnancy is needed to inform programs. METHODS Structured interviews were conducted with 15-17-year-old females-250 who were currently pregnant and 500 sexually experienced, but never-pregnant, n...

Sexuality and the wish for a child are strongly interrelated. Infertility drastically affects the sexual lives of individuals with Infertility and their partners which are often underreported and under-diagnosed. This is even worse in those societies where reproduction is a seminal outcome of sexual encounters. However patients may feel that sexual problems in the context of infertility are not...

Background: Disclosure of HIV positive serostatus to sexual partners and other persons is useful for prevention and care. One of the contextual factors driving the HIV epidemic in Uganda is non-disclosure. Disclosure of HIV positive serostatus to sexual partners and, or close relatives and friends is a very vital public health strategy as it gives many benefits to the individual and the community.

Past research on the sexual double standard has generally shown that both men and women are evaluated similarly, not differently, for engaging in high levels of sexual activity. However, the settings in which this research has taken place may have allowed participants to devote almost all of their cognitive resources to the task of evaluating sexually active men and women. Devoting one’s full a...

Using data from 1,338 couples who remained partnered over the first 5 waves of the German Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (pairfam) project, this study investigated longitudinal associations between male partner contributions to housework and couple sexual satisfaction and frequency. The effect of 2 housework variables was examined: male partners' share of housework...

To determine the potential for sexual transmission of the hepatitis C virus (HCV), we specifically studied a cohort of 42 young adults (median age, 39 yr) with chronic HCV infection and their stable sexual partners. All HCV assays were supplemented with the four-antigen recombinant immunoblot assay, and 39 of 42 partners were tested for HCV RNA by the nested polymerase chain reaction. Ninety pe...

BACKGROUND The perspectives of heterosexual males who have large sexual networks comprising concurrent sexual partners and who engage in high-risk sexual behaviours are scarcely documented. Yet these perspectives are crucial to understanding the high HIV prevalence in South Africa where domestic violence, sexual assault and rape are alarmingly high, suggesting problematic gender dynamics. OBJ...