Food insecurity with hunger has been associated with symptoms potentially indicative of sexually transmitted infection and with reduced odds of condoms use among Brazilian women. The authors say: "Our findings suggest that interventions targeting food insecurity may have beneficial implications for HIV prevention.
Individual-level cognitive and/or behavioral interventions targeting HIV risk avoidance or risk reduction behaviors are likely to be less than optimally effective if these structural factors are not also taken into account."
Source-Eurekalert