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Partner violence and condom use in HIV-Discordant heterosexual partnerships
Eaton, A., Van Der Straten, A., Saul, J., Shiboski, S., & Padian, N. (2014). Partner violence and condom use in HIV-Discordant heterosexual partnerships. Journal of AIDS and Clinical Research, 2(2), 39-46. https://doi.org/10.14302/issn.2324-7339.jcrhap-13-168
This paper examines the association between intimate partner violence and the consistency of condom use in a US urban cohort of HIV-serodiscordant couples. It uses both male and female data from the California Partners Study II of a lower-income ethnically mixed cohort of 145 such couples in the San Francisco Bay Area. We observed a significant association between inconsistent condom use and physical abuse and forced sex: the risk of inconsistent condom use was double for those experiencing physical abuse (OR, 2.2; 95%CI, 1.1, 4.1). Injection drug use and a history of bisexual behavior were also associated with inconsistent condom use. Physical abuse tended to be reciprocal between partners (OR, 3.2; 95% CI, 1.9, 5.6). Our findings suggest that interventions effective in reducing intimate partner violence, and/or reducing the use of injection drugs in HIV-serodiscordant couples could lead to less transmission of HIV.
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