Abstract

Objective: To study the sexual risk behaviors and their determining role in sexually transmissible infection (STI) and HIV among students of the University of Ouagadougou. Methodology: It was a descriptive and analytical single pass cross-sectional study from June 22 to July 21 2010 at the University of Ouagadougou. A cluster sampling in two stages was adopted to form a population of 762. Data were collected using a standardized written questionnaire completed by individual interview after informed consent. Results: The average age of students was 24.2 ± 2 years old for men and 23.7 ± 2 years old women. Singles represented 95.1% of students. The students were not scholarship grantees in 90.6% of the sample. Knowledge about STIs was average in 60.2% of cases. In total 33.65% of the students admitted to having had multiple sexual partners, 19.57% had sex with prostitutes, 34.62% had unprotected sex, 4% practiced sodomy without condoms and 3.1% of students had sex in group with one partner. In multivariate analysis, male gender was the determining factor associated with multiple sexual partner (OR = 3.30 95% CI = 2.19 to 4.95) and relations with prostitutes with an odds ratio of 16.13 (95 = 6.87% to 37.8%). The female gender was the determining factor associated with not using a condom with odds ratio of 1.5 (95% CI = 1.01 to 2.16). Conclusion: There are many risk behaviors for HIV transmission among students of the University of Ouagadougou. The urgent implementation of specific prevention programs to benefit this population is essential.

Highlights

  • HIV infection is a disease that poses to humanity an unprecedented [1] [2] challenge

  • To provide relevant and local information for the implementation of health education programs, we conducted a survey on sexual risk behaviors among students at the University of Ouagadougou

  • The sample size of 762 students was calculated from the prevalence in the general population and an accuracy of 95%

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Introduction

HIV infection is a disease that poses to humanity an unprecedented [1] [2] challenge. In Burkina Faso, the average prevalence of the pandemic in 2008 in the adult population was 1.6% and the number of HIV positive was estimated at 130,000, with a fatality rate of 19.7%. According to UNAIDS, sexual behavior plays a key role in the spread and persistence of the pandemic which mainly concerns young sexually active population [3]-[6]. The situation of HIV infection is poorly understood due to insufficient given statistics [7]. To provide relevant and local information for the implementation of health education programs, we conducted a survey on sexual risk behaviors among students at the University of Ouagadougou

Patients and Methods
Demographics
Sexual Behavior
Study of Determinants of Sexual Risk Behavior
Risk Sexual Behaviors
Determinants of Risk Behavior
Conclusion
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