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More than one-fifth of the participants had not finished nine years of compulsory education. Of the participants, Only One-quarter of HIV-positive clients The mean age for first sexual behavior was Among the married or ever married participants, The mean age for first purchase of commercial sex was Before their HIV diagnosis, Consistent condom use over the past six months was Quotes were chosen to be representative of the emerging themes and provide authenticity to the results.
Almost all participants reported that extramarital sexual behavior, including sex with both commercial and noncommercial partners, was popular among their social networks. Extramarital sexual behavior was perceived positively among peers, serving as a means of conversation and gloating. Participants reported various motivations for having extramarital sex; including meeting their physiological needs; to add excitement to a monotonous life; peer pressure; or as part of banquets where business partners build relationships through dining, drinking, and engaging in sex with FSWs.
Though participants knew using condoms could prevent HIV transmission, many CFSWs reported that after becoming diagnosed with HIV, they stopped having sex with their wives as they saw abstaining from sex with their wives as essential to prevent infection.
Participants reported a lack of partners and an inability or unwillingness to have sex with their regular partners as important reasons for having sex with FSWs. How can I let off [my libido]? Two participants reported having casual, non-commercial partners. An unmarried young man who had broken up with his girlfriend before his HIV diagnosis did not feel ready to date after becoming infected.
He felt hopeless, as he thought no girls would be willing to be his girlfriend or marry him if they knew he was infected with HIV. In order to fulfill his sexual needs, he found one-night lovers on a popular instant messaging app. A married man found an HIV-positive partner with whom he could share feelings, as he felt that his status produced a barrier to intimacy with his HIV-negative wife.
He initiated a relationship with a woman he had seen at an ART clinic because he wanted a partner who also had the disease to communicate with. Table 4 presents models for consistent condom use with different types of partners. After being diagnosed, married participants used condoms consistently with their HIV negative spouses.
The only participant who did not use condoms with his wife concealed his status from her, and did not know her HIV status. He explained after his first wife died, he remarried but he and his second wife did not have a strong emotional attachment.
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With FSWs, participants reported they used condoms consistently to avoid infecting others. The one participant who never used condoms reported that he usually went to bath houses or massage parlors one to two times monthly, which had been greatly reduced compared to before his HIV diagnosis. Condom use with FSWs was also framed as a matter of conscientiousness liangxin and overall quality of the individual suzhi. The results of this qualitative study add context and meaning to the outcomes of the quantitative assessment. The rate of condom use was two times higher among participants engaging in sexual relations with regular partners compared to commercial sex workers.
The in-depth interviews conducted in this study help elaborate on potential reasons and understandings for such behaviors. Our mixed-methods study found that clients continued to practice extramarital sex and low rates of consistent condom use, which placed both their regular and casual sexual partners at risk of infection. Additionally, consistent condom use varied by type of partner.
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The qualitative results suggest that interventions need to address the emotional and sociocultural factors underpinning these disparities in condom use. The qualitative data may explain this difference. In the interviews, participants described feeling a strong sense of responsibility to protect their family from the consequences of their infection and the prioritization of family obligations. In contrast, because commercial or casual sexual partners are outside of the family, clients did not feel a sense of obligation.
However, the low rates of condom use in commercial sex settings indicates that a stronger and culturally resonant sense of obligation to protecting other partners needs to be instilled. Factors such as perception of HIV risk, which have been found to promote condom use for the general client population, are irrelevant for clients who already have HIV [ 19 ]. As our study found that HIV-positive clients who are receiving treatment and are already exposed to prevention services have high levels of HIV knowledge.
In China, interventions for PLHIV focus on preventing secondary transmission within sero-discordant couples [ 6 , 7 ]. However, the qualitative results highlight the role of an HIV-positive status and stigma against HIV in shaping sexual relationships and behaviors that may differ from the general client population. As described in the interviews, a positive HIV status motivated clients to seek extramarital and commercial sex to cope with sexual rejection from regular partners; find someone who could understand their experiences; and protect their families from HIV by meeting their sexual needs through others.
Current interventions for PLHIV must address prevention in the context of extramarital relationships. While the qualitative findings suggest that HIV-positive clients do not want to infect sex workers, interventions must bridge the gap between this intention and actual condom use practice. In addition, removing discrimination and stigma associated with HIV and sex work in society may also decrease unsafe sexual behavior. All findings should be interpreted within the study limitations.
Most participants were receiving ART treatment.
Because those who receive treatment have had contact with HIV-related services, such as counseling, they are more likely to be knowledgeable about HIV. Thus, the population recruited in this study that received treatment would be representative of the larger HIV infected population in the country. In addition, not only were there were several sensitive questions on sexual behaviors and buying sexual services on the study questionnaire, but when we conducted the study, there was also a campaign against sex work in China [ 25 ] and deliberately transmitting HIV to others is illegal [ 26 ].
This bias may be especially pronounced in the qualitative study because all interviews were recorded. Extensive measures were taken to protect participant privacy, to promote a trusting environment, and support anonymity of results. Trained researchers with experience working with this population conducted all data collection, with all personally identifiable information removed in order to reduce such biases.
Additionally though, future qualitative studies should aim to include more men who use condoms inconsistently to better understand the context of this behavior. Our sample could have been expanded to other study sites in order to increase the likelihood of identifying such individuals. Lastly, because of convenience sampling and the limited geographic range, this sample may not be representative of HIV positive CFSWs of China as a whole. However, our study examines the sexual behaviors of a population that has rarely been studied in China.
HIV-positive CFSWs continue to practice unsafe sexual behaviors with regular and irregular partners after an HIV diagnosis, but were more willing to protect their regular partners. Future interventions targeting HIV-positive CFSWs should not only be confined to sero-discordant couples, but also need to instill a sense of responsibility to protect commercial and casual partners and reduce the number of concurrent partners. The results of this mix-methods study can be used to adapt current HIV prevention messaging to promote the agency of FSWs as partners and the importance of condom use when engaging in casual relationships.
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Although I bought this in Beijing, it is another of the religious items obtained by my friends from Hengyang, Hunan. I bought it in , but this text was copied out in the autumn of Tian was a layperson or a religious specialist. But this printed text was not used as the single source for their chaoben , even though they were not writing original text but were copying pages from some other source. However, two of the handwritten texts resemble each other in portions. This indicates a single source, whether hand-copied or printed is not clear, to which both writers were referring.
The two versions have some slight differences. If we accept this idea, we can conjure up a nice image of the copyist fully engaged in his work, chanting and writing at the same time. Those copying these texts were perhaps most keenly interested in being filial and in gaining blessings for their parents. Perhaps they were older and past the age of constructing their marriage relationships and were more concerned with their aged parents. The copied texts were being adapted to reflect their own concerns, which in their minds must have taken precedence over slavishly copying the standard text in front of them.
In both cases, we see that the hand-copied chaoben were works created by the copyist as he went along. They were, in that sense, documents being brought to life, reflecting not just the material being copied but something of the perceptions of the copyist as well, perhaps his way of speaking or his ideas of how the phrase ought to be stated. They became part of the specific local culture that the pingmin always created. The texts show us that, even in the realm of the suprahuman deities and natural forces, the pingmin interpreted those phenomena with their own eyes.
They were not constrained by the distant and exalted deities to transmit only received information.