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Even after counselling the DCs to use condoms, thirty-two spouses revealed having unprotected relationships (4-5 times or more/month) with their spouses within 6 months of their enrollment.
The lack of association with local risk factors, such as blood transfusion and injection, and the results of the multivariate analysis suggest that young, unmarried, and educated local women could be mainly infected by workers during unprotected relationships in exchange for money or goods.
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This provides an upper limit of the 95% confidence interval for the probability of transmission of 0.0005 per unprotected relationship.
Forty-seven HIV-1 DCs (staying together and having unprotected sexual relationships) were enrolled in this study.
Young adults who are planning to travel without their regular sexual partner have been shown previously to be at particular risk for unprotected sexual relationships during their trip.
As Mojola [ 13] notes, "[T]his orientation, along with heightened uncertainty of life expectance, and cultural norms supporting living life to the fullest might partly account for why unprotected sexual relationships persisted in the face of growing AIDS related mortality".
Even if they have heard about HIV and AIDS, young people do not identify themselves with this risk and often tend to get involved in unprotected sexual relationships: only 35 out of 100 young people have used condom during each sexual intercourse.
This is the reason I have spoken with my students like a mother, I have warned them and have given them arguments, which I hope will convince them to protect against HIV by saying "NO" to drugs and unprotected sexual relationships, as well as by avoiding risky situations that can lead to infection.
We noted that 56.4% of our study population had not been tested for HIV, and of this proportion, 28.9% of them were classified as being at high risk of contracting HIV because of their lifestyles, which include drug and alcohol abuse and engaging in unprotected sexual relationships with casuals.
Many youth shared stories of unprotected sexual relationships, street involvement, or injection drug use as factors in their decision to have an HIV test: Well, I was wild when I was younger, so I had – I had slept with some people I probably shouldn't have, and it was unprotected, so I'd get really scared, and I'd go get it tested... because the lifestyle I had was not very safe.
In fact, the current definition of couple infertility in most national health systems is 'more than 1 year of regular, unprotected sexual relationship without pregnancy'.
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