BACKGROUND Female sex workers (FSWs) are a high-risk population for HIV. Correct and consistent use of condoms is the most effective measure for reducing transmission of HIV. Lao PDR is a low HIV-prevalence country, but FSWs have a relatively high HIV prevalence. To be able to make recommendations for condom promotion interventions in Lao PDR it is important to know more about the context speci...

BACKGROUND Community engagement strategies are often integrated in public health interventions designed to promote condom use among men who have sex with men (MSM), a key population for HIV prevention. However, the ways in which condom use peer norms and self-efficacy play a role in the association between community engagement and condom use is unclear. This study examines the potential mediati...

OBJECTIVES Condom use to prevent HIV in Africa has increased in nonmarital sexual encounters but remains low within marriage. Married women of reproductive age, however, are at high risk of HIV. GOAL This study investigated factors associated with consistent condom use after a brief intervention. STUDY DESIGN We conducted an HIV prevention condom intervention with a cohort of 394 married wo...

The National Family Planning Programme of India had introduced condom as one of the family planning methods in the late 1960s. Condom was promoted as a family planning method through social marketing since its inception. With the increasing prevalence and incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV/AIDS, condom was also promoted as a dual method for protection against both...

BACKGROUND Women's perceived control over condom use has been found to be an important determinant of actual condom use in some studies. However, many existing analyses used cross-sectional data and little quantitative information exists to characterize the relationships between perceived control and actual condom use among sex worker populations. METHODS We assessed the association between m...

background: the objective of this study was to describe the extent of sexual activity in adolescent school girls. methods: this was a cross-sectional study with prolective collection of data carried out at lycée general leclerc, yaounde (cameroon), from october 1 to november 30, 2011. heterosexual coitus was considered as sexual activity. a pretested self-administered questionnaire was proposed...

The study examined the influence of individual and proximate factors in determining condom use. Current use of condom and condom use during last sex were used as proxies for consistent condom use. Data on 3,797 sexually active respondents of reproductive age were analyzed from the 2007 USAID-COMPASS midline evaluation on basic family planning and reproductive health outcomes in five Nigerian st...

INTRODUCTION In 2011, the prevalence of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Togo was estimated at 19.6% compared to 3.4% in the general population. This study aimed to describe condom use and associated factors among MSM in Togo. METHODS In 2011, a cross-sectional survey was conducted using the snowball sampling method among MSM in Togo. This study enrolled MSM aged 18 years and abov...

A stratified cross-sectional survey was conducted on 2 278 people residing in and around Addis Ababa and Nazareth cities to assess the behavioural risk factors in HIV/AIDS in selected target groups from August 2000 to December 2000. The target groups, consisting of students, urban residents, farmers, and commercial sex workers, were interviewed using pre-tested questionnaires including indicato...

One of the challenges facing researchers in the domain of human immunodeficiency virus prevention is the assessment of condom use in an unbiased self-reported manner. The current study presents the development and preliminary validation of an indirect condom use test (I-CUTE), designed to assess condom use tendencies and to overcome self-report biases. Two samples were included using correlatio...