Fwd: El bilinguisme es MOLT perillos. Pero mucho.

[Kathryn Woolard]

Received from a friend who works in AIDS prevention. He swears this 
is a real article, but I haven't checked it out. Wait till Ann 
Coulter gets word of this.

  I believe the research team is hoping to demonstrate the effect of 
ice cream on drownings next.

Kit


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>AIDS and Behavior  Issue:  Published online first: 8 April 2006  p.  1-8
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>The Babel Effect: Community Linguistic Diversity and Extramarital 
>Sex in Uganda
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>David Bishai1, 4 , Priya Patil2, George Pariyo3 and Ken Hill1
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>We examine the association of community linguistic diversity with 
>non-spousal sexual activity in Uganda. We conducted a survey on 
>rates of sexual contact in last 12 months among 1709 respondents age 
>18-60 living in Uganda in early 2001. Households were selected at 
>random from Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2000 household 
>sampling frame listings in 12 districts and 120 clusters. Household 
>listings described the principal language spoken by every household 
>in the cluster. Sexual contact was reported by 26 vs. 13% of 
>unmarried women in multilingual vs. monolingual clusters 
>respectively. Extramarital sexual contact occurred for 29 vs. 16% 
>for married men in multilingual vs. monolingual clusters 
>respectively. These results were robust to multivariate models which 
>included confounders such as urbanity, and cluster distance to 
>market places, cinemas, and transportation. Our results suggest a 
>robust association between residence in a multilinguistic community 
>and higher rates of non-spousal sex.
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