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Title The cultural, social and attitudinal context of male sexual behaviour in urban south-west Nigeria
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1885/41209
Date 1995
Author(s) Orubuloye, I. O.; Caldwell, John C.; Caldwell, Pat
Contributor(s) Caldwell, John C.; Santow, Gigi; Jain, Shail
Abstract From 1989 onward a research program based at Ondo State University, Nigeria, investigated the social and behavioural context of the sexually transmitted disease and AIDS epidemics (Orubuloye et al. 1994). Between 1989 and 1993 the researchers reached the conclusion that premarital and extramarital sexual activities were on a sufficient scale in Ondo State to maintain an STD epidemic and possibly to maintain an AIDS epidemic. The reason for caution with regard to AIDS arose from an awareness of the current relatively low seroprevalence levels in Nigeria and the demonstration by the program that much of the premarital and extramarital sexual activity was not with prostitutes but diffused more widely. The researchers also concluded that the economic returns to young women from commercial sex were so substantial and the current and later social sanctions so weak that no government intervention was likely to reduce the inflow of recruits to the occupation sufficiently to stem the STD epidemic or reduce the risk of a major AIDS epidemic. Clearly something would be achieved by a program aimed at increasing the practice of safe sex, especially the use of condoms, by everyone participating in sexual networking, particularly prostitution. There was little evidence that specific planned intervention was already achieving much, although some evidence that government and media AIDS publicity was raising the level of condom use in prostitution. There also seemed to be a need for STD education and curative interventions on a much greater scale. Nevertheless, until the achievement of decisive biomedical breakthroughs to halt the AIDS epidemic, the research increasingly suggested that the best chance of halting the AIDS epidemic and mitigating the impact of STDs was a change in male sexual behaviour. - no
Subject(s) HIV/AIDS; urban south-west Nigeria; male sexual behaviour; STDs; socially transmitted diseases; prostitution; safe sex; mdcn-hlth; mdcn-pblc; scls-edct
Language en_AU
Publisher Health Transition Centre, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University
Type of publication pjournal
Format 47765 bytes; application/pdf
Rights yes
Identifier oct; 2; 207-222; Health Transition Review; 5; 1995; 840
Repository Canberra - Australian National University
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