Concurrency and Other Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Black Young Adults in a Southeastern City

Overview

Journal AIDS Educ Prev

Specialties Infectious Diseases
Medical Education

Date 2016 Feb 2

PMID 26829257

Citations 6

Authors

David H Jolly

Monique P Mueller

Mario Chen

LeMarus Alston

Marcus Hawley

Eunice Okumu

Natalie T Eley

Tonya Stancil

Kathleen M MacQueen

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Abstract

Black Americans continue to have higher rates of HIV disease than other races/ethnicities. Conventional individual-level risk behaviors do not fully account for these racial/ethnic disparities. Sexual concurrency may help explain them. Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) was used to enroll 508 sexually active 18- to 30-year-old Black men and women in Durham, North Carolina in a cross-sectional survey on HIV-related topics. Consistent condom use was low for all participants, especially with steady partners. Concurrent partnerships in the past 6 months were relatively common for both men (38%) and women (25%). In general, men involved in concurrent relationships engaged in more risk behaviors than other men (e.g., inconsistent condom use and alcohol and drug use). A majority of concurrent partnerships involved steady partners. HIV-prevention programs should address the risks of concurrency and factors that discourage condom use, especially with steady partners with whom condom use is particularly low.

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