Open AccessCommunity-Level Gender Equity and Extramarital Sexual Risk-Taking Among Married Men in Eight African Countries
Author(s) -
Rob Stephenson
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international perspectives on sexual and reproductive health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.774
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1944-0405
pISSN - 1944-0391
DOI - 10.1363/3617810
Subject(s) - demography , tanzania , odds , wife , developing country , logistic regression , psychology , gender studies , socioeconomics , sociology , political science , medicine , economic growth , economics , law
In many parts of Africa, women are most likely to become infected with HIV by having unprotected sex with their husbands, who may have acquired the virus through extramarital sex. However, the ways in which aspects of community environments-particularly those related to gender equity-shape men's extramarital sexual risk-taking are not well understood.