Communicating HIV status in sexual interactions: assessing social cognitive constructs, situational factors, and individual characteristics among South African MSM
SOURCE: AIDS and Behavior
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2012
TITLE AUTHOR(S): J.Knox, V.Reddy, F.Kaighobadi, D.Nel, T.Sandfort
KEYWORDS: HIV/AIDS, HOMOSEXUALITY, RISK BEHAVIOUR, SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 7408
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3271
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3271
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2012
TITLE AUTHOR(S): J.Knox, V.Reddy, F.Kaighobadi, D.Nel, T.Sandfort
KEYWORDS: HIV/AIDS, HOMOSEXUALITY, RISK BEHAVIOUR, SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 7408
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3271
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3271
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Abstract
This study assessed whether social cognitive constructs, situational factors, and individual characteristics were associated with communicating HIV status and whether communication was related to sexual risk behavior. A quota-sampling method stratified by age, race, and township was used to recruit 300 men who have sex with men to participate in a community-based survey in Pretoria in 2008. Participants reported characteristics of their last sexual encounter involving anal sex, including whether they or their partner had communicated their HIV status. Fifty-nine percent of participants reported that they or their partner had communicated their HIV status. HIV communication self-efficacy, being with a steady partner and being Black were independently associated with communicating HIV status. Communicating HIV status was not associated with unprotected anal intercourse. HIV communication self-efficacy increases mends likelihood of communicating HIV status. Being with a steady partner and being Black reduces that likelihood. Communication about HIV status did not lead to safer sex.-
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