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Covariates of high-risk sexual behaviour of men aged 50 years and above in sub-Saharan Africa
Since the advent of HIV/AIDS, sexuality studies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have focused mainly on the sexual behaviour of the younger generation (15–49 years) and little has been done to understand the sexual behaviour of those a 50 years and above. The objective of this study is therefore to exami...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678224/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29073828 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2017.1392340 |
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author | Odimegwu, Clifford O Mutanda, Nyasha |
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description | Since the advent of HIV/AIDS, sexuality studies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have focused mainly on the sexual behaviour of the younger generation (15–49 years) and little has been done to understand the sexual behaviour of those a 50 years and above. The objective of this study is therefore to examine the covariates of high-risk sexual behaviour among men aged 50 years plus within the SSA region. Data from Demographic and Health Surveys of 10 SSA countries were pooled together and a sample of 5394 men aged 50 years plus who have ever had sex was analysed. Findings show that in SSA, a large proportion of men aged 50 years plus (74%) were sexually active and a substantial proportion of these men engaged in unsafe sexual behaviours, such as having multiple sexual partners and unprotected sex. The multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that involvement with multiple sexual partners was significantly associated with older age, urban residence, religion, having primary or secondary education, and ever taken an HIV test. Condom use at last sex was significantly associated with age at first sex, multiple sexual partners, level of education and ever been tested for HIV. These results suggest that HIV prevention and intervention programmes should also target older men as they are also sexually active and at risk of being infected because of unsafe sexual practices. |
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spelling | pubmed-56782242017-11-17 Covariates of high-risk sexual behaviour of men aged 50 years and above in sub-Saharan Africa Odimegwu, Clifford O Mutanda, Nyasha SAHARA J Original Articles Since the advent of HIV/AIDS, sexuality studies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have focused mainly on the sexual behaviour of the younger generation (15–49 years) and little has been done to understand the sexual behaviour of those a 50 years and above. The objective of this study is therefore to examine the covariates of high-risk sexual behaviour among men aged 50 years plus within the SSA region. Data from Demographic and Health Surveys of 10 SSA countries were pooled together and a sample of 5394 men aged 50 years plus who have ever had sex was analysed. Findings show that in SSA, a large proportion of men aged 50 years plus (74%) were sexually active and a substantial proportion of these men engaged in unsafe sexual behaviours, such as having multiple sexual partners and unprotected sex. The multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that involvement with multiple sexual partners was significantly associated with older age, urban residence, religion, having primary or secondary education, and ever taken an HIV test. Condom use at last sex was significantly associated with age at first sex, multiple sexual partners, level of education and ever been tested for HIV. These results suggest that HIV prevention and intervention programmes should also target older men as they are also sexually active and at risk of being infected because of unsafe sexual practices. Taylor & Francis 2017-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5678224/ /pubmed/29073828 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2017.1392340 Text en © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Odimegwu, Clifford O Mutanda, Nyasha Covariates of high-risk sexual behaviour of men aged 50 years and above in sub-Saharan Africa |
title | Covariates of high-risk sexual behaviour of men aged 50 years and above in sub-Saharan Africa |
title_full | Covariates of high-risk sexual behaviour of men aged 50 years and above in sub-Saharan Africa |
title_fullStr | Covariates of high-risk sexual behaviour of men aged 50 years and above in sub-Saharan Africa |
title_full_unstemmed | Covariates of high-risk sexual behaviour of men aged 50 years and above in sub-Saharan Africa |
title_short | Covariates of high-risk sexual behaviour of men aged 50 years and above in sub-Saharan Africa |
title_sort | covariates of high-risk sexual behaviour of men aged 50 years and above in sub-saharan africa |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678224/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29073828 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2017.1392340 |
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