HIV/AIDS Prevention
Relationship power for women leads to higher rates of condom use
Published in AIDS Weekly, February 10th, 2003
"Women's ability to negotiate safer sexual practices, particularly condom use, is a vital component of HIV/STD prevention strategies," according to J. Pulerwitz and colleagues, Population Council. "Gender-based power imbalances may constrain women's negotiation ability, yet few empirical studies have tested the hypothesis that sexual relationship power constitutes a key factor in condom use negotiation."
In their study, a "new measure - the Sexual Relationship Power Scale (SRPS) -was applied" to data "collected from 388, mostly...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2003-02-10)
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