This study investigated the relationships of health beliefs and HIV/AIDS knowledge with
frequency of condom use among women of childbearing age in four major Indian cities …

Since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India, pregnant women attending antenatal
clinics (ANC) have been considered as a low HIV risk population. Yet, a substantial …

Background With a population of 1.1 billion, India is considered to be a country in which
effective prevention interventions could contain the development of a human …

Although the impact of HIV falls on both partners of a married couple, the burden of stress
may not be necessarily shared evenly. The researchers in this study examined the relations …

Objective To assess the influence of marital status and other correlates on HIV infection
among women in Nigeria. Methods Data were extracted from the 2012 Nigerian population …

Worldwide, the number of people living with HIV/AIDS is currently estimated at 33.2 million
(UNAIDS 2007). In the early stages of the epidemic, the disease primarily affected men …

The purpose of this paper is to understand how married and cohabiting men and women
define risk and to identify the factors that influence risk perceptions in a setting with a high …

Background & objectives: Risky sexual behaviour is usually the focus of HIV prevention
programmes and little attention has been given to sexual behaviour patterns among HIV …

Using population-based and family structural data from a high HIV-prevalence district of
Southern India, this paper considers four suggested social scenarios used to explain the …

The rate of HIV/AIDS among women in India is expected to rise yet few studies have
examined factors related to HIV risk among Indian women. The objective of this prospective …