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Mixed method cross-sectional study was done among female students in Hawassa town, South Ethiopia, from September to May A structured questionnaire and in-depth interview check list were used to collect the quantitative and qualitative data, respectively. Survey participants were selected randomly from five preparatory schools whereas ten in-depth interview participants were recruited by a snowball sampling technique from the same schools.
We used OpenCode software for coding and categorizing the in-depth interviews and quotes that represent the informants opinion were used to support the quantitative findings. A substantial number of female students, 71 Girls who were in older age group [OR CI 6. In-depth interviewed participants also revealed that they were involved in transactional sex for monetary while having concurrent and subsequent sexual network with their schoolmates and other young partners.
Transactional sex among female students was high, and the sexual network they had with the young men put young people in the network at risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
Therefore, HIV prevention programs shall focus on transactional sex among adolescent school girls to halt transmission of HIV among the generation. Young people in Sub-Saharan Africa SSA are affected by the pandemic to a greater extent than young people elsewhere [ 1 ]. There were 2. In the same year, 1. Ethiopia is one of highly hit nations; in an estimated of 1.
