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Measuring concurrent partnerships: potential for underestimation in UNAIDS recommended method

Maughan-Brown, B.; Venkataramani, A.S.

Aids 25(12): 1549-1551

2011

ISSN/ISBN: 1473-5571
PMID: 21617519
DOI: 10.1097/qad.0b013e32834905c4
Document Number: 229170
Research on concurrent sexual partnerships has been constrained by inconsistent and inaccurate measurements of these partnerships. Recently, a UNAIDS working group recommended a method based on sexual partner histories to improve the measurement of concurrency. Using recent survey data for young adults living in Cape Town, South Africa, we found that this method could result in underestimates of concurrency due to respondents' failure to report additional sexual partners.

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