Urbanisation, Poverty and Sexual Behaviour

Greif, Meredith J.; Dodoo, F. Nii Amoo; Jayaraman, Anuja

doi:10.1177/0042098010368575

Cited by 52 publications

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“…34,37,79,117,139,140 Poverty compromises overall health and access to health care, including testing and treatment for STIs and HIV. It not only restricts access to condoms, but also influences sexual practices and partnerships, creating barriers to condom use.…”

Section: Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

Condoms in sub-Saharan Africa

Maticka‐Tyndale¹

2012

Sex. Health

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Abstract. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the region with the world's highest rates of HIV and other sexually transmissible infections (STIs), yet numerous studies show that condom use is generally rare. This suggests a need for a better understanding of how condoms fit within sexual practices and relationships in SSA. This paper seeks to address this need by reviewing research published between the late 1980s and 2011 on use and factors influencing use of male condoms in SSA. What is evident from this research is that condom use involves complex social and interpersonal dynamics, with structural and cultural conditions exerting an influence through framing social cognitions and setting boundaries on autonomy that make the apparently irrational choice of eschewing condoms a rational decision. The influences of poverty; relationships with parents, peers and partners; limited, insufficient or absent information especially in rural areas and among men who have sex with men; gender and sexual norms, and the dynamics of gendered power; and beliefs and attitudes about HIV, condoms and sexuality all have been shown to work against condom use for a large proportion of Africa's people. However, promising results are shown in trends towards increased condom use among single women in numerous countries, increasing acceptance and use of condoms among some university students, successes in producing potentially sustainable condom use resulting from select interventions, and resistance to succumbing to the dominant gender-power dynamics and structural-cultural impediments that women in groups have mobilised.

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Section: Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

Condoms in sub-Saharan Africa

Maticka‐Tyndale¹

2012

Sex. Health

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“…Zulu, Dodoo, and Chika-Ezeh (2002) found out that slum residents start sexual intercourse earlier and are more likely to be involved with multiple sexual partners than non-slum residents in Nairobi, Kenya. Similarly, Greif, Dodoo, and Jayaraman (2010) found that risky sexual practices such as the early onset of sex, low use of condoms and involvement with multiple sexual partners are more common among slum residents than non-slum residents in several parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Dodoo, Zulu, and Ezeh (2007) further showed that poverty is associated more with risky sexual outcomes among the urban poor than the rural poor in Kenya.…”

Section: Research Problemmentioning

confidence: 97%

Basic deprivation and involvement in risky sexual behaviour among out-of-school young people in a Lagos slum

Kunnuji

2014

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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Research has shown that in countries such as Nigeria many urban dwellers live in a state of squalour and lack the basic necessities of food, clothing and shelter. The present study set out to examine the association between forms of basic deprivation--such as food deprivation, high occupancy ratio as a form of shelter deprivation, and inadequate clothing--and two sexual outcomes--timing of onset of penetrative sex and involvement in multiple sexual partnerships. The study used survey data from a sample of 480 girls resident in Iwaya community. A survival analysis of the timing of onset of sex and a regression model for involvement in multiple sexual partnerships reveal that among the forms of deprivation explored, food deprivation is the only significant predictor of the timing of onset of sex and involvement in multiple sexual partnerships. The study concludes that the sexual activities of poor out-of-school girls are partly explained by their desire to overcome food deprivation and recommends that government and non-governmental-organisation programmes working with young people should address the problem of basic deprivation among adolescent girls.

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“…Some of these risk behaviours have been explained among various groups in different studies (Mpofu et al 2006;Greif et al 2011;Lundberg et al 2012).…”

Section: Risk Behavioursmentioning

confidence: 99%

Medical Sociology in Africa

Amzat¹,

Razum²

2014

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Urbanisation, Poverty and Sexual Behaviour

Cited by 52 publications

References 23 publications

Condoms in sub-Saharan Africa

Condoms in sub-Saharan Africa

Basic deprivation and involvement in risky sexual behaviour among out-of-school young people in a Lagos slum

Medical Sociology in Africa

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