Monitoring sexual behaviour in general populations: a synthesis of lessons of the past decade
Monitoring sexual behaviour in general populations: a synthesis of lessons of the past decade
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DOI：
10.1136/sti.2004.013151
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发表时间：
2004-12-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Weir, SS
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作者：
Cleland, J;Boerma, JT;Weir, SS
本增刊载有2003年9月在伦敦卫生和热带医学学院举行的关于艾滋病毒/艾滋病时代性行为测量的讲习班的论文选编。重点是低收入和中等收入国家，艾滋病毒感染主要发生在这些国家。召开这样一次会议的动机很容易看出。随着艾滋病流行病的继续蔓延和预防方案的扩大，监测性危险行为趋势的需要变得更加迫切。行为数据是对艾滋病毒流行率或发病率变化的生物学证据的重要补充。生物证据虽然不可或缺，但本身不足以作为政策和规划指导。艾滋病控制方案不仅要以监测感染趋势为基础，还要以监测导致流行病减少或进一步蔓延的行为趋势为基础。
This supplement contains selected papers from a workshop on the measurement of sexual behaviour in the era of HIV/AIDS held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in September 2003. The focus was on low and middle income countries, where the majority of HIV infections occur. The motive for holding such a meeting is easy to discern. As the AIDS pandemic continues to spread and as prevention programmes are scaling up, the need to monitor trends in sexual risk behaviours becomes ever more pressing. Behavioural data are an essential complement to biological evidence of changes in HIV prevalence or incidence. Biological evidence, though indispensable, is by itself insufficient for policy and programme guidance. AIDS control programmes need to be based on monitoring of not only trends in infections but also of trends in those behaviours that underlie epidemic curtailment or further spread.