Transactional Sex and HIV Risk among Adolescent School Girls in Ethiopia: Mixed Method Study

Table 1

Codes and categories identified in the qualitative analysis of preparatory students in Hawassa, south Ethiopia, 2011.

Categories	Codes
(1) Magnitude and way of practicing transactional sex with older men	Accessible
	Becoming common
	Get on street
	Looking for victims
	Pre-planed
(2) HIV risk perception and transactional sex with older men	No history of every one
	Insist for unsafe sex are victims
	Easily expose for HIV/risky practice
(3) Multiple sexual partners	Concurrent younger boyfriend
	Sequential sugar daddy partner
	Fixed young boyfriend
(4) Condom use and negotiation power	Don’t use for young boyfriends
	Inconsistent
	Difficult to convince older men
	Bagging for condom use
	Older men dislike condom
	Deliberately break the condom
	Develop trust
(5) Substance use	Alcohol consumption
	Addict to chat
	Smoke cigarette
	Use Shisha
	Make fearless and strength for hardcore
(6) Features of “sugar daddies”	Rich/lots of money/Pay big money
	Married
	Double age difference
(7) Context and reason for sex with “sugar daddies” partners	Need to get everything
	School fees
	Secure earning/more money
	Not ask the family
	Gives a relieve
	Sympathy, generous
	Use to buy top-up
(8) Families awareness	Not see/secretly
	Out of village
	Quite descent
	Convince them
	Private room
	Obedient at home
	Trust worth