Omalola Irinoye
The HIV Research Trust grant in 2004/5 to Omolola Irinoye facilitated: 1. her travels to South Africa, consultation with an experienced researcher (who also supervised her PhD thesis), 2. qualitative data analyses of 14 focus group discussions and in-depth interviews of 32 men and women across three generations of young, middle-aged, and older Yoruba residents in Ile-Ife. Qualitative data facilitated cultural analysis, and understanding of sexual behaviour among the Yoruba people of South Western Nigeria as such are dictated by gender, social demands, and perception of sexual intercourse as it relates to the wholeness of self and life. Findings gave cues to issues to focus on in developing intervention programmes aimed at moderating sexual behaviour as are culturally and socially determined and gender controlled among people from the ethnic group.