Factors related to female sex workers' willingness to utilize VCT service: a qualitative study in Jinan city, northern China.
Abstract
While not mentioned in the authors' conclusion, it has been found and it is also my experience that condom education for HIV prevention does not
cause uptake unless it is culturally based {1}. It is important for the international community to take this principle seriously so to cut the chain of
transmission and prevent rapid HIV transmission as that being experienced in China. Culture should be infused in all condom education and
communication fora.
This is about condom use. knowledge. attitude and practices, and the process is influenced by culture, gender norms and what is accepted by the
'boyfriends'. The findings of the study are relevant to what I have observed in different cultures and a variety of African countries, that people put
forward all sorts of culture arguments not to use condom.
This includes. 'it is like eating a banana with its skin on' and 'sex has not taken place unless it is flesh to flesh and semen has been deposited in
the vagina'.
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Citation
AIDS Behav 2009 Oct; 13(5):866-72Publisher
Center for HIV Prevention and Research, University of Nairobi
Subject
Infectious DiseasesHIV Infection & AIDS
Clinical, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (without HIV)
Public Health & Epidemiology
Epidemiology