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AIDS and Behavior
Erschienen in: AIDS and Behavior 1/2013

01.05.2013 | Original Paper

HIV Risk and Prevention Among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Peri-Urban Townships in Cape Town, South Africa

verfasst von: Geoffrey Jobson, Glenn de Swardt, Kevin Rebe, Helen Struthers, James McIntyre

Erschienen in: AIDS and Behavior | Sonderheft 1/2013

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Abstract

Current guidelines on HIV prevention for MSM emphasise the need for ‘combination prevention’ based on context-specific understandings of HIV risk. MSM in South Africa are a population with a high risk of HIV infection, however there is little research available on the drivers of this risk. In the context of a focus on combination prevention, this paper argues that effective HIV prevention for MSM in South Africa requires an understanding of the factors at multiple ‘distances’ from individuals that contribute to HIV risk. Based on qualitative research with MSM in Cape Town, South Africa, we situate HIV risk using a socio-ecological framework and identify factors at distal, proximal, and personal, levels that contribute to MSM’s high risk of HIV infection. By understanding the interactions and linkages between risk environments and the risk situations in which HIV is transmitted, HIV prevention programmes will be more effectively able to address the multiple drivers of HIV risk in this population.
Fußnoten
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Barnet and Whiteside [47] define risk environments in terms of infectious disease transmission, as those environments in which ‘infectious disease can expand and develop rapidly into an epidemic’.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
HIV Risk and Prevention Among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Peri-Urban Townships in Cape Town, South Africa
verfasst von
Geoffrey Jobson
Glenn de Swardt
Kevin Rebe
Helen Struthers
James McIntyre
Publikationsdatum
01.05.2013
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
AIDS and Behavior / Ausgabe Sonderheft 1/2013
Print ISSN: 1090-7165
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-3254
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-012-0328-5

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