Publication: Differences in sexual behaviour between HIV-infected pregnant women and their husbands in Bangkok, Thailand
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1999-12-01
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09540121
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Mahidol University
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AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV. Vol.11, No.6 (1999), 649-661
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A. Bennetts, N. Shaffer, P. Phophong, P. Chaiyakul, P. A. Mock, K. Neeyapun, C. Bhadrakom, Timothy D. Mastro Differences in sexual behaviour between HIV-infected pregnant women and their husbands in Bangkok, Thailand. AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV. Vol.11, No.6 (1999), 649-661. doi:10.1080/09540129947569 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/25414
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Differences in sexual behaviour between HIV-infected pregnant women and their husbands in Bangkok, Thailand
Abstract
In a Bangkok antenatal clinic, we interviewed 102 HIV-infected pregnant women and their husbands, 30% of whom were HIV-negative. We evaluated these data by matched and unmatched analysis, compared men and women in stable couple relationships on a number of sociodemographic and risk factor indicators and investigated further whether there were any differences in sociodemographic or risk factor profiles between HIV-serodiscordant couples and seroconcordant couples. When compared to wives, more of the husbands were working (p = 0.001), earning more money (p = 0.001), had had more than two sex partners (p = 0.001) and had had syphilis (p = 0.001). Serodiscordant couples did not differ greatly from seroconcordant couples except that women married to HIV-negative men were more likely to have been divorced or separated than their husbands which was not the case for women married to HIV-positive men (p = 0.02). There was poor agreement between husband and wife reports of husband risk behaviour and this did not differ between concordant and discordant couples. These findings suggest that assessment of risk and counselling of Thai women is incomplete without information on the HIV status and risk behaviour of her partner. Prevention strategies to decrease heterosexual transmission among couples need to target both the man and the woman.