Association of HIV prevalence and concurrency of sexual partnerships in South Africa’s language groups: An ecological analysis

Kenyon, Chris

doi:10.7196/sajhivmed.884

S Afr J HIV Med

2013

DOI: 10.7196/sajhivmed.884

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Association of HIV prevalence and concurrency of sexual partnerships in South Africa’s language groups: An ecological analysis

Chris Kenyon

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“…Given the growing number of adolescents in our care and treatment programmes, examples of South African services that meet this need are urgently required. Meanwhile, Kenyon [6] provides a creative analysis of HIV risk factors across language groups in South Africa, providing further indirect evidence for the role of sexual partner concurrency in the spread of the epidemic. Furthermore, Roussouw and colleagues [7] provide a useful overview of HIVassociated liopdystrophy.…”

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Partner Age Differences and Concurrency in South Africa: Implications for HIV-Infection Risk Among Young Women

2014

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Partner-age difference is an HIV-risk factor among young women in Africa, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. We used nationally representative data among black South Africans (men: 3530; women: 3946) to examine the proportion of women in partnerships involving male partner concurrency by age of female partners and by age-disparate (≥5 years) partnerships. Of all partners reported by men, 35% of young (16–24) women were in partnerships involving male partner concurrency of four weeks or longer during the past 12 months. Young women in age-disparate partnerships were more likely to be in partnerships with men who had other concurrent partners (9%; OR 1.88 p<0.01) and more likely to be connected to an older sexual network. Our results suggest that the relationship between male concurrency and age-disparate relationships may increase HIV risk for young women by connecting them to larger and older sexual networks.

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Variations of Sexual Scripts Relating to Concurrency by Race, Class, and Gender in South Africa

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It is unclear whether higher rates of sexual partner concurrency in Black South Africans are due to socioeconomic or cultural factors. We used a nationally representative sample of 9,728 individuals aged 16 to 55 from a study conducted in 2009 to examine how the norms pertaining to concurrency and the practice of concurrency vary by race, class, and gender. The percentage of men reporting point concurrency was 14%, 6.5%, and 2.5% in Blacks, coloreds, and Whites, respectively (p < 0.001). These percentages increased to 45.7%, 24.7%, and 11.7%, respectively, for those reporting lifetime concurrency (p < 0.001). In all the racial groups, men exhibited more favorable attitudes toward concurrency than women did. For a range of indicators, White men and women had less favorable attitudes toward concurrency than Black men and women. These differences remained after controlling for a range of confounding variables. In the adjusted logistic regression model, reported concurrency in men was associated with a younger age, Black race, being in the lowest income tertile, not being in a stable relationship, and expressing various positive attitudes toward concurrency.

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Association of HIV prevalence and concurrency of sexual partnerships in South Africa’s language groups: An ecological analysis

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Partner Age Differences and Concurrency in South Africa: Implications for HIV-Infection Risk Among Young Women

Variations of Sexual Scripts Relating to Concurrency by Race, Class, and Gender in South Africa

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