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The inadequacies of the typical study designs and the parameters employed in the performance-assessment of adolescents’ sexual-behavioural interventions in the context of HIV/AIDS, provoked this study. It examines risky-sexuality of gender-categorized adolescents; their access to intervention actors and relevance-ascription to existing interventions, classified by originating constituencies. Using a questionnaire administered by purposive-cum-random sampling techniques to final-year Senior Secondary School students, in Lagos, Nigeria, it collected information on parental backgrounds; personal sexuality attributes; exposure to agents-cum-instruments of sexual behavioural re-orientation; and personal assessment of benefitted interventions from the specified constituencies. Findings indicate that both genders which converge appreciably on some personal/parental attributes, contrast on risky-sexuality attributes, and in their relative exposure to constituency-differentiated interventions. Statistical hypothesis shows both genders contrasting on relevance-ascription to intervention constituencies. The study conclusively canvassed for improvement in male-intervention attention, including extending the current analytical-purview to include correlate-analysis of relevance-ascription, and other concerns that broaden intervention-researches’ usefulness

This paper aims at filling identified perspective-cum-analytical-framework gap on sexuality-risk analysis between mobile and immobile population groups. It originated from a multi-dimensional study on itinerancy-cum-sexuality-risk study on Lagos, Nigeria, which employed stratified random sampling. It compared the subscription levels of two mobility-differentiated trader-groups to local sexuality-risk notions given their assumed theoretically-differentiated information-fields. The first analysis compared the study populations’ HIV/AIDS’ awareness-duration profiles, as well as their risky-sexuality-condoning notional inclinations. Thereafter, it contrasted their categorized hearsays and notions. Further analyses compute and compare their respective notional-transition scores before examining how HIV/ AIDS’ awareness-duration associate with current notional stances. Among other findings, the mobile group exhibit earlier access to HIV/AIDS information, but differs in the degree to which the time-awareness advantage stimulates them towards health-conducing/safe-sexuality notions. Discussion of policy-cumresearch findings followed.

This paper compares sexuality risk variables and the logit models of itinerantly differentiated tradesmen groups in Lagos Nigeria. The study, using survey design, compared the groups’ biosocial characteristics and then their sexuality risk variables in two ways. First, it compared their relative vulnerabilities to sexually transmitted infections, using selected ‘life-time’ and recent sexuality parameters. Second, it examined the degree of similarity between the groups’ sexuality risk models. Findings show significant bio-social contrasts between the two groups. While circulators showed greater multi-partnership risk, the non-circulators exceeded marginally on commercial sexuality. Condom-use risk was undifferentiating. Also, the variables in their respective parsimonious risk models showed minimal contrast. The findings among others underscore the relevance of HIV/AIDS sufferers as campaign persons and canvassed for greater emphasis on family life programmes, given the riskier sexuality disposition of married tradesmen, regardless of circulation status. Resume Cet article compare les variables de risques de la sexualite avec les modeles de la regression logistique de groupes des commercants se distinguant par itineraire a Lagos, Nigeria. Utilisant un plan de sondage, cette etude a compare leurs traits biosociaux avec leurs variables de risques de la sexualite de deux facons. Premierement, l’etude a compare leurs vulnerabilites relatives aux infections transmises sexuellement, utilisant des parametres de la vie et de la sexualite recemment selectionnes. Deuxiemement, elle a examine le degre de similarite entre les modeles des risques de la sexualite des groupes. Cette recherche demontre les contrastes biosociaux importants entre les deux groupes. Si les circulateurs ont montre un grand risque en multipartenariat, les non-circulateurs etaient marginalement excessifs en sexualite commerciale. Le risque d’usage des preservatifs etait peu pertinent. Aussi, les variables retenues dans leurs respectifs modeles parsimonieux de risques de la sexualite ont demontre un contraste minimal. Cette recherche souligne la necessite d’usage des victimes du VHI/SIDA pour la campagne contre la maladie et la pertinence des programmes a l’intention des familles, vu l’inclination des commercants maries au sexe risque, malgre leurs statuts de circulation. Mots cles: Sexuelle, comportement a risque, circulateurs, noncirculateurs, modelisation