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• TITLE: Sexual Risk Behaviours among People Living with HIV and Implications for Control in the North West Region of Cameroon

  AUTHORS: Tebit Emmanuel Kwenti, Dickson Shey Nsagha, Bita Dizzle Tayong Kwenti, Anna Longdoh Njunda

  KEYWORDS: HIV/AIDS, STDs, Risk Factors, HIV Control, North West Region, Cameroon

  JOURNAL NAME: World Journal of AIDS, Vol.4 No.2, June 17, 2014

  ABSTRACT: In Cameroon, despite extensive control efforts against HIV/AIDS, the number of new HIV infections is still on the rise. The factors contributing to this are not clearly understood. We hypothesized that it may lie on people living with HIV (PLHIV). In a case-control descriptive study, we studied the characteristics and sexual risky behaviour of PLHIV in the North West Region of Cameroon which has the highest HIV prevalence. Participants were screened for HIV and a structured questionnaire was used in data collection. An equivalent number (350) of PLHIV and controls who did not differ with respect to age and sex participated. Relative to the control, PLHIV were generally less educated (P