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In Soweto, South Africa, transactional sex may increase women's risk of HIV.
2004 NOV 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from the United States, "Sex workers have long been considered a high-risk group for HIV infection, but to date little quantitative research has explored the association between HIV risk and exchange of sex for material gain by women in the general population.
"The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of such transactional sex among women attending antenatal clinics in Soweto, South Africa, to identify demographic and social variables associated with reporting transactional sex, and to determine the association between transactional sex and HIV serostatus," said K.L. Dunkle, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, and colleagues.
They "conducted a cross-sectional study of women seeking antenatal care in four Soweto health centers who accepted routine antenatal HIV testing. Private face-to-face interviews covered socio-demographics, sexual history, and experience of gender-based violence."
Close to a quarter (21.1%) of the women "reported having ever had sex with a non-primary male partner in exchange for material goods or money. Women who reported past experience of violence by male intimate partners, problematic substance use, urban residence, ever earning money, or living in substandard housing were more likely to report transactional sex, while women who reported delayed first coitus, were married, or had a post-secondary education were less likely to report transactional sex," Dunkle's group found.
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