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8086144

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-10-20
pubmed:abstractText
To evaluate the extent to which 'high-risk' sexual behaviour is influenced by awareness of partners' HIV status among gay men.
pubmed:keyword
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0269-9370
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
837-41
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:otherAbstract
PIP: The authors interviewed and collected saliva samples from 677 men who reported having sexual contact with other men in the preceding five years to assess the extent to which high-risk sexual behavior is influenced by awareness of partners' HIV status among gay men. Participants of mean age 32.6 years of a range of 16-71 years were recruited from genitourinary medicine clinics and the gay community over the period March 1991-April 1992. 52% were from London, 21% from Manchester, 18% from central England, 6% from Bristol, and 3% from elsewhere. 63% had previously had an HIV-antibody test. 94 (16%) of the 580 satisfactory saliva samples tested for HIV-1 antibodies were seropositive; 17 men were previously unaware of their HIV-positive serostatus. The 577 men who reported having a sex partner within the previous month provided information on 1380 partners during the period. 45% of the sexually active men reported engaging in some kind of penetrative anal sex in the previous month, while 23% reported having unprotected anal sex in the previous month. HIV status was known by both parties, however, in only 15% of the 1380 partnerships. 891 partnerships involved no penetrative anal sex and 1107 involved only nonpenetrative or penetrative sex always with a condom. Further, 26% of the partnerships in which unprotected penetrative anal sex took place involved mutual knowledge of HIV status and was most likely to occur with regular instead of nonregular/casual partners. It is of interest that 114 partners were known to be married and 311 were of unknown marital status. Higher social class was associated with a reduced likelihood of having risky sex and high-risk sex was more common in partnerships in which there was an age gap in excess of two years between partners.
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Awareness of sexual partners' HIV status as an influence upon high-risk sexual behaviour among gay men.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't