Meanings of concurrent partnerships in inglés

Most investigations of the features of concurrent partnerships have focused on higher risk subpopulations.

However, little is known about attitudes, norms and practices among individuals engaged in concurrent partnerships.

Lack of trust was the most commonly cited reason that women engaged in concurrent partnerships.

Social factors influencing participants' concurrent partnerships included being unmarried and trusting neither main nor non-main partners.

Structural factors influencing concurrent partnerships included economic dependence on one or more women, incarceration, unstable housing, and unemployment.

Social factors included social normalisation of concurrency, inability to negotiate partners' concurrent partnerships, being unmarried, and not trusting partners.

However, an individual whose partner has concurrent partnerships (partner's concurrency) is at increased risk for incident HIV infection.

Results: Prevalence of concurrent partnerships since January 1991 was 12% overall.

Incarceration is associated with multiple and concurrent partnerships, which are determinants of sexually transmitted infections (STI), including HIV.

We classified pairs of concurrent partnerships into 3 types: transitional, contained, and experimental concurrency, and assessed the duration of overlap.

Results: Prevalence of concurrent partnerships was 5.7% based on reported partnerships and 8.3% after adjustment for possible underreporting.

Conclusions: Concurrent partnerships likely accelerate heterosexual HIV transmission among blacks in the rural southeastern United States.

Conclusions: Concurrent partnerships may increase rates of heterosexual HIV among blacks in the rural Southeastern United States.

Concurrent partnerships and bridge populations have emerged as key elements in the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).