ArticleAIDS and behavior2013
Communicating HIV status in sexual interactions: assessing social cognitive constructs, situational factors, and individual characteristics among South African MSM.
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- Substance Use and HIV Risk Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in Africa: A Systematic Review.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2017Pooled it
- Assessing the role of masculinity in the transmission of HIV: a systematic review to inform HIV risk reduction counseling interventions for men who have sex with men.Archives of sexual behavior · 2015Pooled it
- Tailoring a Skills-Based Serostatus Disclosure Intervention for Transgender Women in South Africa: Protocol for a Usability and Feasibility Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Information, Motivation and Behavioral Skills as Mediators Between Sexual Minority Stigma and Condomless anal Sex Among Black South African Men Who have Sex with Men.AIDS and behavior · 2023Article
- A Skills-Based HIV Serostatus Disclosure Intervention for Sexual Minority Men in South Africa: Protocol for Intervention Adaptation and a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Prevalence of condomless anal intercourse and associated risk factors among men who have sex with men in Bamako, Mali.International journal of STD & AIDS · 2021Article
- Use of Geosocial Networking Apps and HIV Risk Behavior Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: Case-Crossover Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2021Article
- Estimating the contribution of key populations towards HIV transmission in South Africa.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2021Article
- Safer sex intentions modify the relationship between substance use and sexual risk behavior among black South African men who have sex with men.International journal of STD & AIDS · 2019Article
- Determinants of hazardous drinking among black South African men who have sex with men.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2017Article
- Substance Use and Sexual Risk Behavior Among Black South African Men Who Have Sex With Men: The Moderating Effects of Reasons for Drinking and Safer Sex Intentions.AIDS and behavior · 2017Article
- HIV Risk Among Men Who Have Sex With Men, Women Who Have Sex With Women, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Populations in South Africa: A Mini-Review.The open AIDS journal · 2016Article
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This study assessed whether social cognitive constructs, situational factors, and individual characteristics were associated with communicating HIV status and whether communication was related to sexual risk behavior. A quota-sampling method stratified by age, race, and township was used to recruit 300 men who have sex with men to participate in a community-based survey in Pretoria in 2008. Participants reported characteristics of their last sexual encounter involving anal sex, including whether they or their partner had communicated their HIV status. Fifty-nine percent of participants reported that they or their partner had communicated their HIV status. HIV communication self-efficacy (aOR = 1.2, 95 % CI: 1.04-1.68), being with a steady partner (aOR = 0.36, 95 % CI: 0.19-0.67), and being Black (versus White; aOR = 0.08, 95 % CI: 0.03-0.27) were independently associated with communicating HIV status. Communicating HIV status was not associated with unprotected anal intercourse. HIV communication self-efficacy increases men's likelihood of communicating HIV status. Being with a steady partner and being Black reduces that likelihood. Communication about HIV status did not lead to safer sex.
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