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Title: | Sexual networks and the transmission of HIV in London |
Authors: | Parker, M Ward, H Day, S |
Keywords: | Social networks;Contact;Disease;Spread;HIV |
Issue Date: | 1998 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Citation: | Journal of Biosocial Science, 30(1): 63-83, 1998 |
Abstract: | This paper discusses ways in which empirical research investigating sexual networks can further understanding of the transmission of HIV in London, using information from a 24-month period of participant observation and 53 open-ended, in-depth interviews with eighteen men and one woman who have direct and indirect sexual links with each other. These interviews enabled the identification of a wider sexual network between 154 participants and contacts during the year August 1994-July 1995. The linked network data help to identify pathways of transmission between individuals who are HIV + and those who are HIV -, as well as sexual links between 'older' and 'younger' men, and with male prostitutes. There appears to be considerable on-going transmission of HIV in London. The majority of participants reported having had unprotected anal and/or vaginal sex within a variety of relationships. The implications of these findings for policies designed to prevent the transmission of HIV are discussed. |
Description: | Copyright @ 1998 Cambridge University Press. |
URI: | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=10099&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0021932098000637 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5731 |
ISSN: | 0021-9320 |
Appears in Collections: | Anthropology Publications Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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