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Beliefs about gender equality are strongly predictive of multiple concurrent partnerships and HIV risk behaviours in South Africa,reports Aidsmap News.
This is according to findings presented at the Fourth South African AIDS conference in Durban, the report says.
The findings suggest that we can better reduce the spread of HIV through education campaigns that promote ideas of gender equality to men, and more frequent condom use to women.
In order to better understand the role of concurrent partners and HIV risk, scientists at the Aurum Institute For Health Research examined the 2001 census and randomly sampled 16 of 154 areas in Rustenburg, South Africa, the article says.
Fieldworkers then superimposed the population distribution onto a satellite map and performed interviews with people from 512 randomly chosen houses.
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