PURPOSE: To examine risk and resilience factors at multiple ecological levels related to
Zimbabwean adoles-cents' practice of protected or unprotected sex. METHODS: Data were …

In a test of the predictive capacity of the Health Belief Model, the association of perceived
susceptibility to HIV, severity of HIV infection, efficacy of HIV-preventive solutions, facilitating …

Objectives: Correct and consistent condom use remains an important public health
intervention against the spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and other sexually …

Condoms have been highlighted as one of the most effective strategies to prevent the
spread of HIV and AIDS. This study assessed how adolescents and parents perceive the …

This article reports on factors influencing condom use among out-of-school adolescents in
rural southwest Uganda. Despite an abundance of negative discourses and myths about …

Using data from the 2004 National Adolescent Surveys, this paper undertook a detail
analysis of knowledge of correct condom use and consistency of use, as well as their …

Most HIV prevention strategies for African youth have been ineffective in changing key
behaviors like condom use, partly because community antagonism and structural barriers …

Although several studies have emphasized the relevance of community level variables to
AIDS prevention among young people in sub-Saharan Africa, few have tested the empirical …

The objective of this study was to identify the key determinants of condom use with regular
and casual partners among youth in Madagascar. Data stem from a reproductive health …

Objectives. We examined correlates of condom use among a national random probability
sample of sexually experienced young adults aged 15 to 24 years (n= 7686) in South Africa …