scholarly journals HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, sexual practices and predictors of condom use among long-distance truck drivers in Nigeria

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
P N Aniebue ◽  
U U Aniebue
Keyword(s):  
Condom Use ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Hiv Aids

N/A

Long Distance Truck Drivers in India: HIV Infection and Their Possible Role in Disseminating HIV into Rural Areas

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yadu Nath Singh ◽  
Anand Narayan Malaviya
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Condom Use ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Rural India ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Aids Awareness ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Hiv Aids

In this study, a large number of truck drivers were found to be having sex with the prostitutes in rural areas along the highways of India. Some were having sex with men also. HIV/AIDS awareness and condom use was poor among them. Three out of 302 truck drivers were found to be infected with HIV. The truck drivers could play an important role in the spread of the infection in rural India.

scholarly journals Sexual practices, myths and misconceptions among long distance truck drivers in North India

QJM ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 109 (7) ◽  
pp. 467-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Sawal ◽  
G.D.R. Hans ◽  
G. Verma
Keyword(s):  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
North India ◽  
Long Distance

scholarly journals South Africa: Providers should encourage sexually active youth to use condoms

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Young People ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Condom Use ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Sexually Active ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Youth Centers ◽  
Hiv Aids

To assess the effectiveness of youth centers in reaching adolescents with reproductive health information, life skills, and services, the Reproductive Health Research Unit in KwaZulu Natal and the Population Council conducted an assessment of 12 youth centers and their affiliated peer education programs. The centers were run by the KwaZulu Natal Department of Health, the loveLife program, and the Youth and Adolescent Reproductive Health Program. Researchers also examined young people’s use of condoms as protection against pregnancy and HIV/AIDS. Data sources for this study, conducted in 2000, were an inventory of youth center services, interviews with center staff and clients, service statistics, and community surveys of 1,399 young people aged 12–24 and their parents. As noted in this brief, the study found that many sexually active young people in South Africa are knowledgeable about the sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS but do not use condoms consistently. Service providers can do more to promote condom use among youth by placing condom dispensers in private places and counseling youth on correct condom use and safer sexual practices.

HIV/AIDS KNOWLEDGE, WOMEN’S EDUCATION, EPIDEMIC SEVERITY AND PROTECTIVE SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANA SNELLING ◽  
D. WALTER RASUGU OMARIBA ◽  
SUNGJIN HONG ◽  
KATHOLIKI GEORGIADES ◽  
YVONNE RACINE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Condom Use ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Protective Behaviour ◽  
Aids Knowledge ◽  
Cross National ◽  
Low And Middle Income ◽  
Hiv Aids

Summary.A fundamental public health strategy to reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS is to increase levels of awareness and knowledge about the disease. Although knowledge about HIV/AIDS and protective sexual behaviour are linked theoretically, relatively little is known about their empirical relationship. Using Demographic and Health Survey data from 23 low- and middle-income countries, this study used multilevel logistic regression models: to examine cross-national variability in the relationship between HIV/AIDS knowledge and protective behaviour (condom use and restricted sex); to investigate the moderating influences of women’s educational attainment on this relationship; and to test the extent to which severity of the HIV/AIDS epidemic accounts for cross-national variability in the association between HIV/AIDS knowledge and protective behaviour. There was an association between increased knowledge of HIV/AIDS and condom use that varied in strength and form cross-nationally. This cross-national variation was accounted for partially by the socioeconomic characteristics of women resident in the study countries and between-country differences in the severity of the HIV epidemic. While education modified the association between HIV/AIDS knowledge and protective behaviour – stronger associations at lower levels of education – epidemic severity exerted a stronger influence on behaviour than any other characteristic. Finally, this study indicates that protective sexual practices are disturbingly low. In eight of 23 countries, overall levels of condom use to prevent STDs and HIV/AIDS were less than 5·0%. Waiting for the spread of HIV/AIDS infection to change sexual practices in low- and middle-income countries will result in dramatic unnecessary suffering.

DESCRIBING STI/STD AND CONDOM USE BEHAVIOR AMONG POLICE EMPLOYEES IN POLICE TRAINING COLLEGE AT SHEHDADPUR, SANGHAR, SINDH

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Abdul Jabbar ◽  
Sheh Mureed ◽  
Walid Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Condom Use ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Infections ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Hiv Aids

Background: STI/STD are diseases related with unsafe sexual practices or infections. It is estimated that more than 340 million new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections. Throughout the world in men and women aged15–49 years, with the largest proportion in the region of south and south-east Asia, Followed by sub Saharan Africa, and Latin American and the Caribbean.Objectives: To assess the perception and awareness regarding STI/STD and use of condom and to assess the barriers for condom use as prevention of STI/STD among police Employees.Methods: A cross sectional study was design to collect data from male police employees of police training college of Shahdadpur, Sanghar, aged 20 to 50 years, and total study sample was calculated to be 105. A questionnaire was developed for collection of the data, and data was analyzed by using different tools of MS-excel and SPSS 20.0 versions.Results: 90% of the participants were aware about sexually transmitted infections (STIS), 82% were also aware that to be limited only one sexual partner .75% of them were known that condom can protect from STIS. Whereas 90% of the participants believed that by sharing food with any STI patient it does not spread the disease.94% participants were aware that the STIS and HIV/AIDS can be transmitted from mother to her child during pregnancy. Overall 80% were aware about hepatitis A, B, C and HIV/AIDS and remaining 90% were unaware about other STIS.Conclusion: The study concludes that police employees has high level of knowledge about condom usage as prevention of STIs but stigma attached with usage of condoms as they feel shy by purchasing the condoms.

scholarly journals Meanings and vulnerability to HIV/AIDS among long-distance truck drivers in Brazil

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laio Magno ◽  
Marcelo Eduardo Pfeiffer Castellanos
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Access To Treatment ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Hiv Aids

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To understand the meanings assigned by long-distance truck drivers to HIV/AIDS and its transmission and prevention, bearing in mind different contexts of vulnerability. METHODS Qualitative research with 22 truck drivers. Semi-structured interviews and participant observation were conducted in highways of the state of Bahia in 2013. We selected male truck drivers, with one year or more of work experience in long-distance routes. We carried out the thematic analysis of the interviews, to identify different contexts of vulnerability. RESULTS The results showed that the insertion of truck drivers in contexts of high social vulnerability (poor working conditions, violence on the roads, and use of alcohol and other drugs) along with the advances in access and effectiveness of treatment for AIDS promote a reduced perception of the risk and severity of this disease. In addition, the notion of “risk group” and the symbolic division between “home space” (protected) and “street space” (unprotected) intensified a restricted and specific use of condoms, guided by the opposition between “woman of the street” (unknown women, prostitutes, among others) and “woman of the house” (wives, girlfriends). CONCLUSIONS The meanings assigned by truckers to AIDS incorporated elements of recent transformations of the expanded social context, such as the development of health technologies (especially anti-retroviral drugs) and the guarantee of free access to treatment in the Brazilian public health system; but also incorporated old elements of social vulnerability context – such as the poor working conditions on Brazilian highways.

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