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Colin Watson1, Kirsty Smith2, Ahmed Latif3
1Centre for Disease Control, Department of Health, Northern Territory Government, Gap Road, Alice Springs, NT 0871, Australia; and Present address: Charles Darwin University, 10 Grevillea Drive, Alice Springs, NT 0871, Australia; and Corresponding author.
Abstract:
Rates of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) in remote central Australian Aboriginal communities have been persistently high for over two decades, yet risk factors for STIs in these communities are not well understood. This qualitative study explored behavioural and contextual risk factors for STIs in young Aboriginal people in central Australia. The study identified that casual relationships between young people are common and that there is a strong association between travel, alcohol and casual sex, highlighting the ongoing need for comprehensive sexual health programs that are tailored to the specific social, cultural and interpersonal circumstances of young people in this setting.
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