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11th Annual Conference Of The British HIV Association [BHIVA]20–23 April 2005, Burlington Hotel·Dublin·Ireland |
[AUTHOR(S):] KA Fenton, CH Mercer, AM Johnson, AJ Copas, B Erens, K Wellings
Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, Mortimer Market Centre, London, UK
BHIVA Conf 2005 Apr 20-23;11:O13
AIM: To identify factors associated with acquiring new sexual partners while overseas.
METHODS: National probability survey of 12,110 men and women aged 16–44 years, resident in Britain in 2000. Sociodemographic, health-related, travel, sexual behaviour and attitudinal data collected by computer-assisted-self-interviewing.
RESULTS: 14.7% of men and 7.8% of women reported new sexual partner(s) while abroad in the past 5 years. The mean (standard deviation) number of new partnerships while abroad in this period was significantly greater for men: 3.7 (12.8), than women: 2.0 (4.8). 49.5% of new partners originated from the UK; 37.2% from other European countries. Mixing was also assortative by country of birth, with partners tending to be from the UK or, if not UK born, their own birth region, than elsewhere. Reporting new partnerships abroad was significantly associated with a range of demographic and risk behaviours including younger age, non-married status, greater partner numbers, paying for sex, same-sex partnerships, and unsafe sex in the past 4 weeks.
CONCLUSIONS: Although travellers who have sex abroad select partners from their own geographic regions, their higher prevalence of sexual risk behaviours at home and abroad place them at greater risk and in need of targeted sexual health promotion.
PRESENTING AUTHOR: CH Mercer
2005-04-20
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