Author(s)

C. M. R. Ouedraogo^*, F. D. Millogo Traore, A. Ouattara, A. Ouedraogo, X. Kaboré, D. P. Kain, B. Yaméogo, E. Komboigo, M. Guinko, J. Lankoandé

Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The University Teaching Hospital Yalgado Ouedraogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Objective: To study the sexual risk behaviors and their determining role in sexually transmissible infection (STI) and HIV among students of the University of Ouagadougou. Methodology: It was a descriptive and analytical single pass cross-sectional study from June 22 to July 21 2010 at the University of Ouagadougou. A cluster sampling in two stages was adopted to form a population of 762. Data were collected using a standardized written questionnaire completed by individual interview after informed consent. Results: The average age of students was 24.2 ± 2 years old for men and 23.7 ± 2 years old women. Singles represented 95.1% of students. The students were not scholarship grantees in 90.6% of the sample. Knowledge about STIs was average in 60.2% of cases. In total 33.65% of the students admitted to having had multiple sexual partners, 19.57% had sex with prostitutes, 34.62% had unprotected sex, 4% practiced sodomy without condoms and 3.1% of students had sex in group with one partner. In multivariate analysis, male gender was the determining factor associated with multiple sexual partner (OR = 3.30 95% CI = 2.19 to 4.95) and relations with prostitutes with an odds ratio of 16.13 (95 = 6.87% to 37.8%). The female gender was the determining factor associated with not using a condom with odds ratio of 1.5 (95% CI = 1.01 to 2.16). Conclusion: There are many risk behaviors for HIV transmission among students of the University of Ouagadougou. The urgent implementation of specific prevention programs to benefit this population is essential.

Risks Sexual Behavior, Student, Ouagadougou

Ouedraogo, C. , Traore, F. , Ouattara, A. , Ouedraogo, A. , Kaboré, X. , Kain, D. , Yaméogo, B. , Komboigo, E. , Guinko, M. and Lankoandé, J. (2016) Epidemiology of Sexual Behaviour with Risk of Sexually Transmissible Infection (STI) among Students in Africa: The Case of the University of Ouagadougou. Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 6, 219-231. doi: 10.4236/ojog.2016.64028.