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| Title |
Factors associated with sexual risk taking behavior by precarious urban migrants in French Guiana
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, June 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12914-018-0164-4 |
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| Authors |
August Eubanks, Marie Claire Parriault, Astrid Van Melle, Célia Basurko, Leila Adriouch, Claire Cropet, Mathieu Nacher |
| Abstract |
French Guiana is highly affected by HIV. The migrant population is particularly susceptible. The objective of this study was to evaluate the level of risk of HIV transmission and its perception among migrants in French Guiana and to identify predictive factors. An HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes, Behaviors and Practices study was conducted in 2012 among migrants living in precarious neighborhoods of French Guiana. Of the 1039 participants surveyed, 893 were analyzed, of which 35.6% had risky sex during the past 12 months. Sexual risk taking was higher among the migrant population than in the general population. The predictors of sexual risk taking behavior were: younger age groups, males, having a job, not living with a spouse, having first had sex before age 16, using alcohol or drugs before sex, and having engaged in commercial sex recently. The factors associated with not being aware of one's risk were: being a woman, being from Guyana or Suriname, non-systematic use of condoms with a regular partner, and never or not recently having been tested for HIV. The results suggest there is still a need for information on HIV risks in a highly vulnerable population. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 62 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 62 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 10 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 16% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 8% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 7 | 11% |
| Unknown | 24 | 39% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Nursing and Health Professions | 13 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 13% |
| Psychology | 4 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 6 | 10% |
| Unknown | 27 | 44% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 July 2018.
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#4,241,949
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Outputs from BMC Public Health
#4,981
of 17,517 outputs
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#76,756
of 342,171 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#134
of 317 outputs
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