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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cult Health Sex. 2014 Feb 28;16(4):397–411. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2014.883645
Man #3: A good relationship is the one that when you have proposed each other and
you go for testing. If you are really in love, you can have sex when you get
married but also after you go for testing. That’s a good courtship.
Man #5: My idea is the same that in a relationship you should start sleeping with each
other after you have gone for testing. But if you find that you are okay
[without the virus], you should still use condoms. It can help.
Man #3: But perhaps we want to have sex with the woman before we know our status.
Man #8: Maybe the woman had sex with someone that is HIV-positive and she did not
go for testing. But maybe you went for testing and you are okay [HIV-
negative]. So you get caught in the cobweb and you are found in the group of
people being infected. (FGD #8, single men, age 18–24)