partner risk factor

STD Any factor that ↑ a sexual partner's risk of transmitting STD, especially HIV PRFs Sex with a prostitute, or someone with AIDS, or a STD, receptive anal intercourse, injection of drugs of abuse. See High risk behavior, Negotiated safety, Partner notification program. Cf Safe sex practices.

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More than one third of both sterilized (35%) and nonsterilized (37%) women had a personal and/or a partner risk factor for STDs (Table 2).

Surgical sterilization among women and use of condoms - Baltimore, 1989-1990

With regard to partner risk factors, more women who preferred English and more born in the continental United States knew or worried that their main sexual partner had risk factors for HIV.

Among women with a main partner, multivariate analyses revealed that those who preferred English and those who had experienced IPV were more likely to report condom use with the main partner in the past 90 days and to have knowledge of or worry about partner risk factors. There was also an interaction between education level and acculturation as predictors of condom use.

Sexual risk factors for HIV and violence among Puerto Rican women in New York City