SynthesisJournal of the International AIDS Society2011
Concurrent partnerships and HIV: an inconvenient truth.
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- PrEP and Contraceptive Persistence Among Young Women Receiving Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Through Hair Salons in South Africa.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2026Trial
- Brief Report: Predictors of Concurrent Sexual Partnerships and Association With Recent HIV Infection in a Large Population-Based Survey in Botswana.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2025Trial
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- 'It's because I like things… it's a status and he buys me airtime': exploring the role of transactional sex in young women's consumption patterns in rural South Africa (secondary findings from HPTN 068).Reproductive health · 2018Trial
- Predictors of perceived male partner concurrency among women at risk for HIV and STI acquisition in Durban, South Africa.AIDS research and therapy · 2016Trial
- Prevalence of risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus among sexually active women in Rwanda: a nationwide survey.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Hidradenitis Suppurativa in Patients with HIV: A Scoping Review.Biomedicines · 2022Article
- Concurrency measures in the era of temporal network epidemiology: a review.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021Review
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- Assessment of an HIV-prevention intervention for couples in peri-urban Uganda: pervasive challenges to relationship quality also challenge intervention effectiveness.African journal of AIDS research : AJAR · 2020Article
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- One step ahead: timing and sexual networks in population mobility and HIV prevention and care.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2018Article
- Relational concurrency, stages of infection, and the evolution of HIV set point viral load.Virus evolution · 2018Article
- Couple serostatus patterns in sub-Saharan Africa illuminate the relative roles of transmission rates and sexual network characteristics in HIV epidemiology.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Application of Core Processes for Understanding Multiple Concurrent Sexual Partnerships Among Adolescents in Uganda.Frontiers in public health · 2018Article
- Gender asymmetry in concurrent partnerships and HIV prevalence.Epidemics · 2017Article
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- The Risk of Sexually Transmitted Infection and Its Influence on Condom Use among Pregnant Women in the Kintampo North Municipality of Ghana.Journal of sexually transmitted diseases · 2017Article
- Abstinence Funding Was Not Associated With Reductions In HIV Risk Behavior In Sub-Saharan Africa.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2016Article
- Interdependent effects of cohesion and concurrency for epidemic potential.Annals of epidemiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
The strength of the evidence linking concurrency to HIV epidemic severity in southern and eastern Africa led the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the Southern African Development Community in 2006 to conclude that high rates of concurrent sexual partnerships, combined with low rates of male circumcision and infrequent condom use, are major drivers of the AIDS epidemic in southern Africa. In a recent article in the Journal of the International AIDS Society, Larry Sawers and Eileen Stillwaggon attempt to challenge the evidence for the importance of concurrency and call for an end to research on the topic. However, their "systematic review of the evidence" is not an accurate summary of the research on concurrent partnerships and HIV, and it contains factual errors concerning the measurement and mathematical modelling of concurrency.Practical prevention-oriented research on concurrency is only just beginning. Most interventions to raise awareness about the risks of concurrency are less than two years old; few evaluations and no randomized-controlled trials of these programmes have been conducted. Determining whether these interventions can help people better assess their own risks and take steps to reduce them remains an important task for research. This kind of research is indeed the only way to obtain conclusive evidence on the role of concurrency, the programmes needed for effective prevention, the willingness of people to change behaviour, and the obstacles to change.
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