Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. Black men can reduce the disproportionately high HIV prevalence in their communities by changing their socially misconstrued masculine role.
We analysed factors predisposing heterosexual ACB men to risky sexual behaviour, particularly multiple casual sex partnerships in Ottawa and Windsor, Ontario, Canada. We employed quantitative datasets from a broader mixed methods study within hierarchical logistic regression model to determine the association between psychosocial factors and casual sex partnerships. The model controlled for city level clustering effect and sociodemographic factors.
Precisely Some of them Windsor, The behavioural factors jointly predicted casual sex more than sociodemographic variables and city of residence. We conclude that heterosexual ACB men are predisposed to casual sex partnerships at differing magnitude across cities, and this may constitute a risk factor for HIV exposure.
Hence, propagation of HIV knowledge, community attitudes and reconstruction of masculine ideology among ACB men, with due attention to geopolitical differences in city of residence, are recommended. More research and strategic interventions are necessary in Canada because HIV prevalence fluctuates within a range of values without the anticipated near-zero decline in the last decade.
Although the national diagnosis rates cases per , population witnessed a downward trend between and , there were increases between and , with an increase of 2. The trend is similar in Ontario, with a rise from 6.
