For each assessed time period, participants provided separate counts of the number of HIV-positive, HIV-negative, and HIV-serounknown (i.e., unknown to the participant) partners with whom they had had oral, vaginal, and/or anal sex.
"$1bn doesn't get you very far these days," sniffed one of the participants, partner in a large private equity firm.
3) Social influence Social influences of participants' partner, family, friends and co-workers on the specific behaviour are assessed.
In contrast to the original paradigm used by Singer et al. (2004), the participants' partner was not necessarily their romantic partner.
At certain sites, participants' partners will also be recruited.
Questions about participants' partners may seek information never known to the participant.
It could be that participants' partners or others see the intervention website, texts to participants' mobile phones or email messages.
Majority (75.5%) of the participants' partners use contraceptive methods for child spacing while 21.0% use to limiting birth.
For the purpose of the research, participants' personal and contextual characteristics were taken out and pseudonyms were used throughout, including participants, partners, babies and other children.
The persons they talk to were diverse: they were the participants' partners or family members, friends, colleagues, and supervisors as well.
