Multiple Sexual Partners and Vulnerability to HIV: A Study of Patterns of Sexual Behaviour in the Slum Population of India
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51402#.VGlTnmfHRK0 Author(s) Pravin K. Jha 1 , Damodar Sahu 2* , K. Srikanth Reddy 2 , Padum Narayan 2 , Arvind Pandey 2 Affiliation(s) 1 Centre for Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India . 2 National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi, India . ABSTRACT Globally, research indicates that monogamous married women living in slums are at heightened risk of HIV men’s risky sexual behaviour. Hence, to reduce the risk of HIV transmission, there is need to understand the number, nature and variation in transition of sexual partners of men in living in slums. This paper uses India’s National Fam...