Achieving the Optimal Vaginal State: Using Vaginal Products and Study Gels in Uganda, Zimbabwe, and South Africa
Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: Preferences and practices related to the vaginal condition have implications for the use of vaginal HIV prevention products. We used qualitative methods to explore narratives relating to the vaginal state amongst women in South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe who had previously participated in a biomedical HIV prevention trial. We investigated women's behaviours related to optimising the vaginal state, experiences and perceptions of the gel's effect on the vaginal state and on penile-vaginal intercourse, women's narratives on male partner perceptions, and how preferences relating to the vaginal state may have interfered with gel use.
Authors: Zoe Duby, Barbara Mensch, Miriam Hartmann, Elizabeth Montgomery, Imelda Mahaka, Linda-Gail Bekker, Ariane van der Straten
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2602198182