“A man without money getting a sexual partner? It doesn't exist in our community”: male partners' perspectives on transactional sexual relationships in Uganda and …

J Pulerwitz, C Valenzuela, A Gottert, G Siu… - Culture, Health & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Research on transactional sexual relationships has largely focused on women's
perspectives. Better understanding the men's views—especially regarding relationships with …

Skinning the goat and pulling the load: transactional sex among youth in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

RK Maganja, S Maman, A Groves, JK Mbwambo - AIDS care, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Transactional sex has been associated with risk of HIV infection in a number of studies
throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Urban young women are economically vulnerable and at …

[HTML][HTML] Developing experimental vignettes to identify gender norms associated with transactional sex for adolescent girls and young women in Central Uganda

K Stoebenau, N Kyegombe, JB Bingenheimer… - Journal of Adolescent …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose Transactional sex or informal sexual exchange relationships increase adolescent
girls' and young women's (AGYW) HIV and pregnancy risk in sub-Saharan Africa. These …

Sexual health of adolescent girls and young women in Central Uganda: exploring perceived coercive aspects of transactional sex

N Kyegombe, R Meiksin, J Wamoyi… - Sexual and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Uganda are at risk of early sexual debut,
unwanted pregnancy, violence, and disproportionally high HIV infection rates, driven in part …

[HTML][HTML] From survival to glamour: motivations for engaging in transactional sex and relationships among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa

Z Duby, K Jonas, T McClinton Appollis, K Maruping… - AIDS and Behavior, 2021 - Springer
We explored transactional sex and relationships (TSR) among South African adolescent
girls and young women (AGYW) using (1) survey data from 4,399 AGYW aged 15–24 years …

[HTML][HTML] Transactional sex amongst young people in rural northern Tanzania: an ethnography of young women's motivations and negotiation

J Wamoyi, D Wight, M Plummer, GH Mshana… - Reproductive health, 2010 - Springer
Background Material exchange for sex (transactional sex) may be important to sexual
relationships and health in certain cultures, yet the motivations for transactional sex, its scale …

Trading in sexual currency: Transactional sex, sexual coercion and sexual behaviours among young people in Uganda

V Choudhry - 2015 - portal.research.lu.se
The growing incidence and prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among young
people, particularly HIV, is a public health concern in Uganda. There is increasing evidence …

“Women's bodies are shops”: beliefs about transactional sex and implications for understanding gender power and HIV prevention in Tanzania

J Wamoyi, A Fenwick, M Urassa, B Zaba… - Archives of sexual …, 2011 - Springer
Although transactional sex has been linked to undesirable sexual health outcomes, there is
a lack of clarity as to the meaning of the practice, which appears to extend beyond behaviors …

'I trap her with a CD, then tomorrow find her with a big old man who bought her a smart phone'. Constructions of masculinities and transactional sex: a qualitative study …

L Howard-Merrill, J Wamoyi, D Nyato… - Culture, Health & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Men's role in transactional sex is relatively unexplored, limiting initiatives to prevent
exploitative transactional sex and its negative health implications for girls and women. We …

[HTML][HTML] Revisiting the understanding of “transactional sex” in sub-Saharan Africa: A review and synthesis of the literature

K Stoebenau, L Heise, J Wamoyi, N Bobrova - Social science & medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract In sub-Saharan Africa, young women ages 15–24 have more than twice the risk of
acquiring HIV as their male counterparts. A growing body of epidemiological evidence …