Jankovic Z, Ilic D, Paunic M; International Conference on AIDS.

Int Conf AIDS. 2000 Jul 9-14; 13: abstract no. TuPeD3631.

Z. Jankovic, Proleterskih brigada 57, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Tel.: +381 11 433 488, Fax: +381 11 344 1547, E-mail: zdenac@arkayu.net

Bacground: At the end of the twentieth century,some 34 million people (children and adults) overhelmed by the fatal disease look into the future hopefully. Observed regionally, the epidemic has been spreding differently to reach its dominant way of HIV transmission among heterosexuals.In Yu-goslavia,there are still a larger number of the deceased and infected drug abuse,however,the per-centage of the HIV infected among heterosexuals has increased. The epidemic has spread the fastest in those regions of the world affected/or still being affected by political,economic or social turmoil accompanied by constant pauperisation and increased migration of population,which has been the case of Yugoslavia in the last ten years.Therefore,we may expect a larger incidence of HIV positive persons. Aim: The assess the model of sexual behaviour among youth of Belgrade in regard to HIV infec-tion risks, as well as the analysis of the factors which determine such behaviour. Method: The investigation was carried out by The Institute for Social Medicine, Statistics and Health Research of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade in cooperation with the UNICEF, based on the WHO instructions defined in the guidelines of the Evaluation of National AIDS Programe. Sample: The investigation involved all members of a household aged from 15 to 49 in one part of Belgrade. But, for this paper only youth (360) aged from 15 to 19 was observed. Results: Out of the total number (360) one third is sexually active.The average age of the first sexual contact for both sexes is 16 years and 3 months (SD = 1.29),whereas the earliest first contact is at the age of 13, and the latest at the age of 19. Analysing the examinees, who have sexual experience, according to their sexes, there is a highly siginificant difference (>0.001) between boys and girls, because significantly higher percentage of young men (44.8%) has already had sexual contact earlier than girls (25.9%). The knowledge of preventive practice (one partner, use of condom and sterile needle) varies between examinees with and without sexual experience:those who have not had sexual contacts yet,71.1% of them know about all three pre-ventive kinds of practice,whereas those examinees with sexual experience only 29.0% of them know about all three. Therefore, there is highly significant difference between these two groups (Chi-Sqaure = 9.466, df = 0.224, p = 0.224). Conclusion: With an early sexual contacts there is a higher possibility of HIV infection in adoles-cents,especially because there is an often tendency towards changing partners.

Publication Types:

• Meeting Abstracts

Keywords:

• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• Adolescent
• Adult
• Behavior
• Child
• Condoms
• Disease Outbreaks
• Female
• HIV Infections
• HIV Seropositivity
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Humans
• Knowledge
• Male
• Population
• Population Surveillance
• Sexual Behavior
• Yugoslavia

Other ID:

• GWAIDS0002194

UI: 102239687

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