16 Additionally, research in Thailand found that longer term intimacy formed between travellers and expatriates and local 'bar girls' who may have one or more concurrent partner, blurring the line between 'relationship' and commercial transaction.
According to various studies, black South African men tend to be more promiscuous, have more concurrent sexual partners and have sex more often than other South African males.
Research shows that black males in South Africa tend to be more promiscuous and have more sex and more concurrent sexual partners than other racial groups.In March the government announced a campaign to get 15m people one in three of the population tested for HIV/AIDS by June next year.
Half of the population indicated to have a steady relationship, one-third had successive casual sexual relationships and 4% reported two or more concurrent sexual partners.
Individuals with drinking behavior are more likely to have casual sex without condoms [ 1, 2], engage in transactional sex [ 3] and have more concurrent sex partners resulting in risk for HIV [ 4– 6] and they are more likely to be HIV positive [ 7, 8].
Women who perceived their partners as having concurrent partners were more likely to prefer HBHTC (OR = 2.35, 95%% CI: 1.39-3.99) and those who reported physical threat were also more likely to prefer HBHTC for male testing (OR1.44, 95%% CI: 1.06 to 1.95).
Adolescents are more at risk because they tend to have a higher number of partners and more concurrent partnerships than older age groups.
However, the Ugandan network had a higher prevalence of concurrency on any given day, much longer overlaps among concurrent partners, and many more coital acts with secondary partners.
While information about concurrent partners would provide a more complete understanding of partnering, the collection of such personal and potentially sensitive data is not considered appropriate during routine household visits given that data may be collected from proxy respondents.
