Avtor/Urednik     Klavs, Irena; Rodrigues, Laura C; Wellings, Kaye; Weiss, Helen A; Hayes, Richard
Naslov     Sexual behaviour and HIV/STI risk behaviours in the general population of Slovenia, a low HIV prevalence country in Central Europe
Tip     članek
Vir     Sex Transm Infect
Vol. in št.     Letnik 85, št. 2
Leto izdaje     2009
Obseg     str. 132-8
Jezik     eng
Abstrakt     Methods: We conducted a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of the general population aged 18-49 in 1999-2001. The data were collected by face-to-face interviews and anonymous self-administered questionnaires. Statistical methods for complex survey data were used. Results: We interviewed 849 men and 903 women. In the past 5 years, both men and women reported a median of one heterosexual partner (means: 3.2, 1.5 respectively), concurrent heterosexual partnerships were reported by 24.4% of men and 8.2% of women, heterosexual sex with non-Slovenian partners by 12.6% of men and 12.2% of women, forced sex by 4.8% of women, paid heterosexual sex by 2.6% of men, sex with another man by 0.6% of men, and heterosexual sex with an injecting drug user by 1.2% of men and 1.3% of women. In the past year, 22.7% of men and 9.5% of women reported forming at least one new heterosexual partnership. Mean numbers of episodes of heterosexual sex in the previous four weeks were 6.1 for men and 6.0 for women. Consistent and inconsistent condom use was reported more frequently among men reporting multiple female partners and those not married or cohabiting. Conclusions: Recent patterns of reported sexual behaviour are consistent with low risk of HIV and STI transmission in Slovenia. Our results will inform Slovenian sexual health policies including HIV/STI prevention, and are particularly valuable, since population-based data on HIV/STI risk behaviour have not previously been available in low HIV prevalence countries of Central Europe.