Background
Adolescents present both a challenge as well as an opportunity while exploring the linkages between HIV related risk behaviour across different sub populations. Adolescents are an unprecedented large and growing population, especially in developing world like INDIA. With sexual activity often initiated in adolescence -within or outside of marriage - the risk relating to their sexual behaviour is often underestimated.
Therefore, this paper focuses at the extent of comprehensive knowledge among young men age 15-24 and the socio-economic and contextual correlates of HIV related risk behaviors in India, which may have top programmatic priorities for designing evidence based interventions.