Validity of self-reports of HIV and sexually transmitted infections in rural Malawi • Simona Bignami, Université de Montréal ; Li-Wei Chao, University of Pennsylvania

Poverty, gender and psychosocial dimensions of safe-sex behaviour of Zambian women • George Groenewold, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; Inge Hutter, University of Groningen ; Jeroen van Ginneken, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; Bart de Bruijn, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

The role of HIV/AIDS awareness on the process of partnership formation in Africa: results from the 2004 Courtship and Condoms study in rural south-western Uganda • Dorothy Akurut, Medical Research Council, Uganda ; Brent Wolff, Medical Research Council, Uganda ; Samuel Biraro, Medical Research Council, Uganda ; Heiner Grosskurth, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Risk perception and sexual behaviour among young people: triangulation of qualitative, quantitative and biological markers data • Cecilia Gayet, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) ; Miguel Sanchez, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica ; Carlos Conde, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica

Extramarital sex among men in Zambia • Sitawa R. Kimuna, East Carolina University ; Yanyi K. Djamba, Southeastern Louisiana University