HIV risks among women who are married to men who have sex with men in India

A qualitative investigation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID15098510
AutoresCecilia Tomori (0000-0003-4235-1821, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA, autor correspondente), Kailasom Srikrishnan Aylur (0000-0002-0533-6836, YR Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education), Aylur K Srikrishnan (Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education, Chennai, India), Sachin H Mehta (0000-0002-2523-0959, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA), Nymisha Nimmagadda (0009-0006-2384-5649, LifeBridge Health), Santhanam Anand (Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education, Chennai, India), Canjeevaram K Vasudevan (Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education, Chennai, India), David D Celentano (0000-0002-6061-8799, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA), Sunil S Solomon (0000-0002-3296-1514, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA)
Ano2018
Volume20
Fascículo8
Páginas873-887
Data de publicação2018-08-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCulture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13691058.2017.1390161
PMID29125041
OpenAlexW2767262382
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas37

In countries such as India, men who have same-sex partnerships may marry women due to cultural pressures regardless of their sexual desires and preferences. The wives of such men may be at risk for HIV but limited existing research addresses this issue. This qualitative study used in-depth interviews to investigate HIV-related risk among married men who have sex with men (n = 34) and women who were aware of their husband's same-sex behaviour (n = 13) from six research sites in five states and a Union Territory in India: Delhi (Delhi), Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Hyderabad (Telangana), Bengaluru (Karnataka), Chennai and Madurai (Tamil Nadu). Thematic analysis revealed that wives of men who have sex with men were at risk for HIV from their husbands' sexual practices, which are often hidden to avoid the potential consequences of stigmatisation, as well as from gender-based inequities that make husbands the primary decision-makers about sex and condom use, even when wives are aware of their husband's same-sex behaviour. Innovative interventions are needed to address HIV-related risk in couples where wives remain unaware of their husband's same-sex behaviour, and for wives who are aware but remain within these marriages

Condom · Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Syphilis · Tamil · Thematic analysis · Demography · Gender Studies · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Sex work and related issues