Vulnerability and sexual risks

Vagos and vaguitas in a low income town in Perú

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15098494
AutoresXimena Salazar (0000-0003-4998-8251, a Cayetano Heredia University , Lima , Perú, autor de correspondencia), Carlos F Cáceres (0000-0002-8101-0790, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia), Carlos Cáceres (a Cayetano Heredia University , Lima , Perú), Ana María Rosasco (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia), Ana Rosasco (a Cayetano Heredia University , Lima , Perú), Susan M Kegele (0000-0003-4602-2275, University of California, San Francisco), Susan Kegeles (b University of California , San Francisco , USA), Andre Maiorana (0000-0001-7122-6136, b University of California , San Francisco , USA), María Gárate (a Cayetano Heredia University , Lima , Perú), María del Carmen Gárate (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia), Thomas J Coates (0000-0002-2470-2096, University of California, Los Angeles), Thomas Coates (c University of California , Los Angeles , USA), The NIMH Collaborative HIV/STI Prev The NIMH Collaborative HIV/STI Prev, The NIMH Collaborative HIV STI Prev
Año2005
Volumen7
Número4
Páginas375-387
Fecha de publicación2005-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCulture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13691050500100849
PMID16864210
OpenAlexW1971485141
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas8

Young people constitute a priority for sexual health research, policy and planning. Many studies, however, regard youth as a homogeneous group defined by developmental stages and their problems as inherent rather than factors resulting from structural vulnerability. Ethnographic data from this study provided strong evidence of the inappropriateness, in prevention interventions, of the concept of 'young people' as a group defined only by age and gender. When incorporating social resources and support into the analysis, specific segments of youth with diverse sexual practices and health seeking behaviours emerge. Thus, although most young people in urban areas show a similar level of HIV/STI knowledge, their exposure to risk varies according to their living conditions. Two population segments - "street guys" and "fast girls" - identified as vulnerable for sexual risk, are characterized. Both groups hang out on the streets, and most are involved in using alcohol and drugs, and/or practicing transactional sex. This study provided evidence for the need of various approaches according to level of poverty and social vulnerability in order to develop more effective HIV/AIDS and STI prevention programs to meet the needs of young men and women in low-income areas

Developmental psychology · Environmental health · Political science · Population · Poverty · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Reproductive health · Transactional sex · Vulnerability (computing · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Gerontology