title: Sexual risk behaviour among migrant tribals living in urban slums of an eastern Indian city: implications on the spread of HIV.
abstract: This paper reports the sexual risk behaviour among migrant tribal community living in an eastern Indian city. The age at marriage is very low in this community and 54% of women had first intercourse before the age of 15 years with the mean of 15.8 years and it is 19.5 years for men. Pre and extramarital relations, including multi-partnered sex is prevalent. Safe sexual practices are not reported and the risk perception is very low. High prevalence of behavioral risk factors leaves a potential risk for rapid spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) both in slums as well as in remote tribal areas.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, India.
authors.forename: Suchismita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mishra
authors.forename: Basanta Kumar
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Swain
authors.forename: Bontha Veerraju
authors.initials: BV
authors.lastname: Babu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D011204:Poverty Areas; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D014171:Transients and Migrants