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This paper describes the findings of the in-depth semi-structured interview of medical professionals on their views on integrated sexual health services. Health professionals working in genitourinary medicine, family planning, and generic sexual health services in UK were selected to represent the views of the clinical staffs in different residenti...
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This paper examines the relationship of culture to HIV prevention in China. Culture was defined in this text as the interaction between human beings and various cultural tools; it encodes different meanings, ideologies, and social practices. Among the most pervasive tool people use when constructing their response to AIDS is the notion of culture i...
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This paper analyzes how contemporary perceptions of male homosexuality are being shaped in Mexico. Ethnographic analysis included four short case studies from 64 mostly middle class individuals for two years in Guadalajara City. Mexican sexual culture is often portrayed traditionally as grounded in values inherent in machismo and influenced by Cath...
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This article examines how "gayness" and the "gay community" have been conceived and experienced by participants in Porto Alegre's homosexual/gay subcultures. The objective of this article is to map out some of the key tensions and power dynamics involved in the apparent consolidation of gay communities/culture in Brazil and to explore what might be...
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This study examined the reasons why military personnel in the Canadian Forces (CF) engaged in risky sexual practices despite their knowledge acquired during educational/informal training programs. Analytic induction and grounded theory were used to generate and test their explanations. Interviews were first conducted with seven key informants and l...
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The research on male homosexuality and alternative sexual cultures among Latin American men is one of the richest sources of data and cross-cultural analysis on sexuality, sexual identities and sexual communities anywhere in the world. New research includes not only an ongoing concern to describe the distinct contours of different social and cultur...
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This paper focuses on the emergence of HIV seropositivity as a new identity, closely linked to male homosexuality, in Brazilian culture. Two distinct conceptions of seropositive identities that emerged in the Brazilian HIV/AIDS movement were examined. These two differing conceptions have taken shape as the basis for social action and activism aroun...
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This article reports on research on the multiple identities and behavior of female prostitutes in Indonesia as they relate to different players in their lives. It is introduced with a review of the literature, which reveals an underlying research bias that prostitutes are a hazard to society and a lack of attention to how they negotiate various asp...
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It is not easy to collect valid and reliable data on sexual behavior, and despite the development of more sophisticated survey instruments since the 1980s, largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, many problems persist. Since the advent of AIDS, there is a greater need to obtain accurate data on sexual behavior. Findings are presented from a c...
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This paper presents an analysis of the self-reported sexual and drug injecting behavior of 178 young people and the qualitative accounts of injecting drug use and sexual behavior of a smaller group of 30 who are interviewed as part of the larger sample. The research was conducted in the Australian state of Victoria and Queensland through 89 youth s...
