Facteurs structurels et communautaires augmentant la vulnérabilité des hommes ayant des relations sexuelles avec des hommes dans la riposte au virus de l’immunodéficience humaine au Burkina Faso
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Worldwide and particularly in Africa, Men who have sex with men (MSM) can play a significant role in response to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). In Burkina Faso the fight against HIV within this population seems to be limited by violence towards MSM. PURPOSE OF RESEARCH: The goal of this study was to identify the social obstacles to HIV response among MSM in Burkina Faso. METHODS: It has been a descriptive study with an exploratory aim in a mainly qualitative approach. It was conducted in the two biggest cities as well as two border ones of the country. Nonstructural interviews have been conducted with the help of prevention MSM actors. The data have been thematically analyzed. RESULTS: In the structural level, homosexuality is publically condemned by politicians some of whom seeking its criminalization. According to them it has "come from elsewhere" and is "contrary to morals". Even though there is no legally punishing regulation against it, political and administrative authorities and security forces do not protect MSM against homophobic violence. There is not enough care structures for MSM in the country. At the community level, many religious leaders condemn homosexuality, considered as a sin; they view homosexuality as an "abomination". MSM feel that they are victims of homophobic violence. CONCLUSIONS: The MSM are victims of violence from populations and state institutions too. To reach MSM by activities in response to HIV these obstacles must necessarily be removed.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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