Intravaginal practices among female sex workers in Kibera, Kenya

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 318-322

  Gallo, Maria F ^a   Sharma, Anjali ^b,c,d   Bukusi, Elizabeth A ^b,c,d,e   Njoroge, Betty ^b,e   Nguti, Rosemary ^e   Jamieson, Denise J ^a   Bell, April J ^a   Eschenbach, David A ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; KENYA; LUBRICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VAGINAL LAVAGE; ADOLESCENT; HYGIENE; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

AGENTS USED INTRAVAGINALLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES; KENYA; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSTITUTION; VAGINAL CREAMS, FOAMS, AND JELLIES; VAGINAL DOUCHING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956040398     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2009.040345     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Brotman RM, Ghanem KG, Klebanoff MA, et al. The effect of vaginal douching cessation on bacterial vaginosis: a pilot study. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2008;198:628.e1-7.
2. Ness RB, Hillier SL, Richter HE, et al. Why women douche and why they may or may not stop. Sex Transm Dis 2003;30:71-4.
3. Tsai CS, Shepherd BE, Vermund SH. Does douching increase risk for sexually transmitted infections? A prospective study in high-risk adolescents. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2009;200:38.e1-8.
4. Brotman RM, Klebanoff MA, Nansel TR, et al. A longitudinal study of vaginal douching and bacterial vaginosis - a marginal structural modeling analysis. Am J Epidemiol 2008;168:188-96.
5. Brotman RM, Klebanoff MA, Nansel T, et al. Why do women douche? A longitudinal study with two analytic approaches. Ann Epidemiol 2008;18:65-73. (Pubitemid 350184340)
6. McClelland RS, Richardson BA, Graham SM, et al. A prospective study of risk factors for bacterial vaginosis in HIV-1-seronegative African women. Sex Transm Dis 2008;35:617-23.
7. McClelland RS, Lavreys L, Hassan WM, et al. Vaginal washing and increased risk of HIV-1 acquisition among African women: a 10-year prospective study. AIDS 2006;20:269-73.
8. Rugpao S, Sriplienchan S, Rungruengthanakit K, et al. Risk factors for bacterial vaginosis incidence in young adult Thai women. Sex Transm Dis 2008;35:643-8.
9. van de Wijgert JH, Morrison CS, Cornelisse PG, et al. Bacterial vaginosis and vaginal yeast, but not vaginal cleansing, increase HIV-1 acquisition in African women. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2008;48:203-10.
10. Hutchinson KB, Kip KE, Ness RB, for the Gynecologic Infection Follow-Through (GIFT) investigators. Vaginal douching and development of bacterial vaginosis among women with normal and abnormal vaginal microflora. Sex Transm Dis 2007;34:671-5.
11. Klebanoff MA, Andrews WW, Yu KF, et al. A pilot study of vaginal flora changes with randomization to cessation of douching. Sex Transm Dis 2006;33:610-13.
12. Myer L, Denny L, de Souza M, et al. Distinguishing the temporal association between women's intravaginal practices and risk of human immunodeficiency virus infection: a prospective study of South African women. Am J Epidemiol 2006;163:552-60.
13. Myer L, Kuhn L, Stein ZA, et al. Intravaginal practices, bacterial vaginosis, and women's susceptibility to HIV infection: epidemiological evidence and biological mechanisms. Lancet Infect Dis 2005;5:786-94. (Pubitemid 41688983)
14. Ness RB, Hillier SL, Kip KE, et al. Douching, pelvic inflammatory disease, and incident gonococcal and chlamydial genital infection in a cohort of high-risk women. Am J Epidemiol 2005;161:186-95.
15. Rothman KJ, Funch DP, Alfredson T, et al. Randomized field trial of vaginal douching, pelvic inflammatory disease and pregnancy. Epidemiology 2003;14:340-8. (Pubitemid 40417087)
16. Ness RB, Soper DE, Holley RL, et al. Douching and endometritis: results from the PID evaluation and clinical health (PEACH) study. Sex Transm Dis 2001;28:240-5.
17. Voeller B, Coulson AH, Bernstein GS, et al. Mineral oil lubricants cause rapid deterioration of latex condoms. Contraception 1989;39:95-102. (Pubitemid 19022941)
18. Van Damme L, Ramjee G, Alary M, et al. Effectiveness of COL-1492, a nonoxynol-9 vaginal gel, on HIV-1 transmission in female sex workers: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2002;360:971-7. (Pubitemid 35284107)
19. Braunstein S, van de Wijgert J. Preferences and practices related to vaginal lubrication: implications for microbicide acceptability and clinical testing. J Womens Health 2005;14:424-33. (Pubitemid 41052041)
20. Koblin BA, Mayer K, Mwatha A, et al. Douching practices among women at high risk of HIV infection in the United States: implications for microbicide testing and use. Sex Transm Dis 2002;29:406-10. (Pubitemid 34747698)
21. Njoroge B, Gallo MF, Sharma A, et al. Diaphragm for HIV prevention: is it a safe method for women at high risk? Sex Transm Dis 2010; In press.
22. Kaul R, Kimani J, Nagelkerke NJ, et al. Monthly antibiotic chemoprophylaxis and incidence of sexually transmitted infections and HIV-1 infection in Kenyan sex workers: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 2004;291:2555-62. (Pubitemid 38702773)
23. Kleinbaum DG, Kupper LL, Muller KE, et al. Applied regression analysis and multivariable methods. New York: Duxbury Press, 2007.
24. Fonck K, Kaul R, Keli F, et al. Sexually transmitted infections and vaginal douching in a population of female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya. Sex Transm Infect 2001;77:271-5. (Pubitemid 32682142)
25. Hassan WM, Lavreys L, Chohan V, et al. Associations between intravaginal practices and bacterial vaginosis in Kenyan female sex workers without symptoms of vaginal infections. Sex Transm Dis 2007;34:384-8. (Pubitemid 46816785)
26. Martin Hilber A, Hull TH, Preston-Whyte E, et al. A cross cultural study of vaginal practices and sexuality: Implications for sexual health. Soc Sci Med 2010;70: 392-400.
27. Schwandt M, Morris C, Ferguson A, et al. Anal and dry sex in commercial sex work, and relation to risk for sexually transmitted infections and HIV in Meru, Kenya. Sex Transm Infect 2006;82:392-6. (Pubitemid 44578293)
28. Brown JE, Ayowa OB, Brown RC. Dry and tight: sexual practices and potential AIDS risk in Zaire. Soc Sci Med 1993;37:989-94.
29. Rungara A, Pitts M, McMaster J. The use of herbal and other agents to enhance sexual experience. Soc Sci Med 1992;35:1037-42.
30. Sharma A, Bukusi E, Posner S, et al. Sex preparation and diaphragm acceptability in sex work in Nairobi, Kenya. Sex Health 2006;3:261-8.
31. Baisley K, Changalucha J, Weiss H, et al. Bacterial vaginosis in female facility workers in north-western Tanzania: prevalence and risk factors. Sex Transm Infect 2009;85:370-5.
32. Gresenguet G, Kreiss JK, Chapko MK, et al. HIV infection and vaginal douching in central Africa. AIDS 1997;11:101-6. (Pubitemid 27023219)
33. La Ruche G, Messou N, Ali-Napo L, et al. Vaginal douching: association with lower genital tract infections in African pregnant women. Sex Transm Dis 1999;26:191-6. (Pubitemid 29174420)