The purpose of this paper is to understand how married and cohabiting men and women define risk and to identify the factors that influence risk perceptions in a setting with a high prevalence of HIV infection. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used during a cross-sectional survey conducted among 248 men and 289 women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Forty in-depth intervi...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of STI/HIV risk behaviours in a sample of homosexual men and investigate the psychosocial and cognitive variables associated with these behaviours. METHOD A sample of 123 users of a homosexual men's sexual health clinic completed a questionnaire which included demographic information, psychometric measures, history of sexual risk behaviour, and history o...

BACKGROUND Research has demonstrated a link between alcohol use and risky sexual behaviour among different types of migrant populations. Therefore, research investigating risk factors associated with alcohol consumption among them is a public health priority. This review aimed to explore the intersection between migration, alcohol consumption and risky sexual behaviour. METHODS This article i...

BACKGROUND Risk-reduction counselling is a standard preventive intervention, but behaviour change is difficult to sustain over the duration of HIV infection. However, primary HIV infection (PHI) is highly infectious and plays a key role in transmission - especially through dense sexual networks - but is short term, so even transient risk reduction can mitigate its high infectivity. Targeting be...

This paper examines factors that may predispose unmarried and unemployed out-of-school youth to risky sexual behaviour. Data for analysis were derived from the Behaviour Surveillance Survey carried out in Kenya in late 2002. A total of 6129 male and female unmarried and unemployed out-of-school youth in the age range 15-24 years were successfully interviewed. However, for this paper only a samp...

background: adolescence is a period of overwhelming changes and challenges, which expose the adolescents to high-risk behaviors. risky sexual relationship is one of these behaviors that entails physical risks and psychosocial harms. various factors have been recognized to shape sexual behaviors in adolescents. this paper is an attempt to investigate the factors contributing to high-risk sexual ...

OBJECTIVES Drug interactions, poor adherence to medication and high-risk sexual behaviour may occur in individuals with HIV using recreational drugs. Thus, we aimed to assess the prevalence of recreational drugs use and to explore its clinical impact in HIV patients on treatment. METHODS Observational, cross sectional, study conducted in a 700 bed university hospital, Barcelona, Spain. A tota...

The African-American adolescent female population is disproportionately affected by sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the HIV epidemic in the United States. 2 Like other adolescents, African-Americans also have a high rate of teenage pregnancy. One important, yet understudied, protective influence that could reduce African-American adolescents’ sexual risk behaviour may be their involvemen...