Associations between childhood adversity and depression, substance abuse and HIV and HSV2 incident infections in rural South African youth.

Objectives: To describe prevalence of childhood experiences of adversity in rural South African youth and their associations with health outcomes.

Methods: We analyzed questionnaires and blood specimens collected during a baseline survey for a cluster randomized controlled trial of a behavioral intervention, and also tested blood HIV and herpes simplex type 2 virus at 12- and 24-month follow up; 1,367 male and 1,415 female volunteers were recruited from 70 rural villages.

Results: Both women and men before 18 had experienced physical punishment (89.

Transactional sex with casual and main partners among young South African men in the rural Eastern Cape: prevalence, predictors, and associations with gender-based violence.

We explored the prevalence and predictors of transactional sex with casual partners and main girlfriends among 1288 men aged 15-26 from 70 villages in the rural Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews with young men enroling in the Stepping Stones HIV prevention trial. A total of 17.

Perpetration of partner violence and HIV risk behaviour among young men in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Objectives: To examine associations between the perpetration of intimate partner violence and HIV risk behaviour among young men in rural South Africa.

Design: An analysis of baseline data from men enrolling in a randomized controlled trial of the behavioural intervention, Stepping Stones.

Methods: Structured interviews with 1275 sexually experienced men aged 15-26 years from 70 villages in the rural Eastern Cape.

Rape perpetration by young, rural South African men: Prevalence, patterns and risk factors.

Sexual violence is a well-recognised global health problem, but there has been remarkably little research on men as perpetrators. The objectives of this paper are to describe the prevalence, patterns and factors associated with rape of an intimate partner and a woman who was not a partner with men aged 15-26 years in rural South Africa. The analysis presented here is of data collected during a baseline survey of participants in a cluster randomised controlled trial of an HIV behavioural intervention.