Concurrent sexual partnerships among young adults in Cape Town, South Africa: how is concurrency changing?

@article{MaughanBrown2013ConcurrentSP,
  title={Concurrent sexual partnerships among young adults in Cape Town, South Africa: how is concurrency changing?},
  author={Brendan Maughan-Brown},
  journal={Sexual health},
  year={2013},
  volume={10 3},
  pages={
          246-52
        }
}
BACKGROUND The current debate about the role of concurrent sexual partnerships in the spread of HIV is influenced by limited or weak empirical data on concurrency. There is still uncertainty about the most basic statistics and little is known about how concurrency is changing. METHODS Longitudinal data (n=2958) with repeated concurrency measures were employed to examine the prevalence of individual concurrency (someone has other partners during their most recent sexual partnership) and… 
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The results suggest that the relationship between male concurrency and age-disparate relationships may increase HIV risk for young women by connecting them to larger and older sexual networks.
Individual and Relationship Predictors of Couple-Level Sexual Concurrency in Heterosexual South African Couples
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Sexual concurrency at the couple-level and differentiated couples based on whether neither, one, or both partners engaged in sexual concurrency over the past 6 months suggest that consideration of the experiences and behavior of both partners may be useful in understanding different reasons for engagement.
Predictors of perceived male partner concurrency among women at risk for HIV and STI acquisition in Durban, South Africa
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Older women, having never married, experiencing economic abuse, and women reporting individual concurrency were found to be significant predictors of perceived male partner concurrency in the studied population.
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Predictors of multiple concurrent and multiple sexual partnerships among male and female youth aged 18–24 in South Africa
This study aimed to determine predictors of multiple concurrent and multiple sexual partnerships among South African male and female youth. Data were from a cross-sectional population-based household…
HIV Prevalence by Race Co-Varies Closely with Concurrency and Number of Sex Partners in South Africa
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Differences in sexual behavior in general, and the prevalence of concurrency and the number of sexual partners in particular, offer a plausible and parsimonious cause to explain a part of the differing prevalences of HIV between South Africa's racial groups.
Gender asymmetry in concurrent partnerships and HIV prevalence.
Correlation between National Peak HIV Prevalence and Concurrency, STI Treatment Capability, Condom Use and Circumcision: An Ecological Study
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Differences in the prevalence of circumcision likely influence differential peak HIV prevalence within sub Saharan Africa but are implausible causes for the higher HIV prevalence in this region, according to this analysis.
Ecological association between HIV and concurrency point-prevalence in South Africa's ethnic groups
  • C. Kenyon
  • Psychology, Sociology
    African journal of AIDS research : AJAR
  • 2013
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Tackling the key drivers of high HIV transmission in this population may benefit from more emphasis on partner reduction interventions, and how much of the variation in HIV prevalence by ethnic group is explained by differential concurrency rates is explored.
Concurrent partnerships in Cape Town, South Africa: race and sex differences in prevalence and duration of overlap
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This work aims to characterize concurrency in a more accurate and complete manner, using data from three disadvantaged communities of Cape Town, South Africa.
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