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Follow us Unconventional Safer Sex Strategies
a PSC Small Grant Research Project
Investigator: Rebecca L. Thornton
This research investigates an alternative method of encouraging safer sex among sexually active students in Malawi. We suggest an alternate form of safer sex: oral sex. Despite quantitative evidence showing that female-to-male oral sex carries a much lower risk of HIV transmission than unprotected vaginal intercourse and comparable risk to vaginal intercourse with a condom, to the best of our knowledge there have been no prior programs that have included oral sex as a risk reduction strategy. This study will investigate the effect of encouraging oral sex as an alternative to unprotected vaginal intercourse. We will conduct detailed focus groups on the acceptability of oral sex in Malawi; we will also examine the effect of information on the use of new techniques and relative risk on the substitution away from unprotected vaginal intercourse to oral sex.
| Funding: | Eva L. Mueller New Directions in Economics and Demography Fund |
Funding Period: 02/01/2010 to 06/30/2011
PSC Research Areas:
Families, Fertility, and Children
Health, Disability, and Mortality
Country of Focus: Malawi
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