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UNAIDS ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator: promoting sexual networks to reduce potential biases
UNAIDS proposed a set of core indicators for monitoring changes in the worldwide AIDS epidemic. This paper explores the validity and effectiveness of the ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator, which is only partially captured with current available data. The paper also suggests an innovative app...
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Co-Action Publishing
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955766/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24647127 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.23103 |
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author | Dimbuene, Zacharie Tsala Emina, Jacques B.O. Sankoh, Osman |
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description | UNAIDS proposed a set of core indicators for monitoring changes in the worldwide AIDS epidemic. This paper explores the validity and effectiveness of the ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator, which is only partially captured with current available data. The paper also suggests an innovative approach for collecting more informative data that can be used to provide an accurate measure of the UNAIDS’s ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator. Specifically, the paper addresses three major limitations associated with the indicator when it is measured with respondents’ sexual behaviors. First, the indicator assumes that a person’s risk of contracting HIV/AIDS/STIs is merely a function of his/her own sexual behavior. Second, the indicator does not account for a partner’s sexual history, which is very important in assessing an individual’s risk level. Finally, the 12-month period used to define a person’s risks can be misleading, especially because HIV/AIDS theoretically has a period of latency longer than a year. The paper concludes that, programmatically, improvements in data collection are a top priority for reducing the observed bias in the ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator. |
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spelling | pubmed-39557662014-04-24 UNAIDS ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator: promoting sexual networks to reduce potential biases Dimbuene, Zacharie Tsala Emina, Jacques B.O. Sankoh, Osman Glob Health Action Study Design Article UNAIDS proposed a set of core indicators for monitoring changes in the worldwide AIDS epidemic. This paper explores the validity and effectiveness of the ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator, which is only partially captured with current available data. The paper also suggests an innovative approach for collecting more informative data that can be used to provide an accurate measure of the UNAIDS’s ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator. Specifically, the paper addresses three major limitations associated with the indicator when it is measured with respondents’ sexual behaviors. First, the indicator assumes that a person’s risk of contracting HIV/AIDS/STIs is merely a function of his/her own sexual behavior. Second, the indicator does not account for a partner’s sexual history, which is very important in assessing an individual’s risk level. Finally, the 12-month period used to define a person’s risks can be misleading, especially because HIV/AIDS theoretically has a period of latency longer than a year. The paper concludes that, programmatically, improvements in data collection are a top priority for reducing the observed bias in the ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator. Co-Action Publishing 2014-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3955766/ /pubmed/24647127 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.23103 Text en © 2014 Zacharie Tsala Dimbuene et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Study Design Article Dimbuene, Zacharie Tsala Emina, Jacques B.O. Sankoh, Osman UNAIDS ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator: promoting sexual networks to reduce potential biases |
title | UNAIDS ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator: promoting sexual networks to reduce potential biases |
title_full | UNAIDS ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator: promoting sexual networks to reduce potential biases |
title_fullStr | UNAIDS ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator: promoting sexual networks to reduce potential biases |
title_full_unstemmed | UNAIDS ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator: promoting sexual networks to reduce potential biases |
title_short | UNAIDS ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator: promoting sexual networks to reduce potential biases |
title_sort | unaids ‘multiple sexual partners’ core indicator: promoting sexual networks to reduce potential biases |
topic | Study Design Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955766/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24647127 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.23103 |
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