Patterns of Caribbean Masculinities and Condom Compliance Among Males in Grenada
Hegamin-Younger, C.; Jeremiah, R.; Bilbro, N.
American Journal of Men's Health 8(4): 335-338
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 1557-9891 PMID: 24356495 DOI: 10.1177/1557988313516356Document Number: 577862
The construction of Caribbean male identities based on ideas of masculinity has raised widespread concerns across the island states, and in a region with such high rates of teenage pregnancy (18%), stigmatizing safe sex, contraception, and HIV/AIDS prevalence can only exacerbate the problem. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which males use condoms and to explore the association of condom use with their concern with acquiring and transmission of sexually transmitted infections.