Awareness of sexual partners' HIV status as an influence upon high-risk sexual behaviour among gay men.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the extent to which 'high-risk' sexual behaviour is influenced by awareness of partners' HIV status among gay men. DESIGN: Structured interviews and collection of saliva samples for anonymous linked testing for HIV-1 antibodies. SETTING: Genitourinary medicine...
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| author | Dawson, J Fitzpatrick, R Reeves, G Boulton, M McLean, J Hart, G Brookes, M |
| author_facet | Dawson, J Fitzpatrick, R Reeves, G Boulton, M McLean, J Hart, G Brookes, M |
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| description | OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the extent to which 'high-risk' sexual behaviour is influenced by awareness of partners' HIV status among gay men. DESIGN: Structured interviews and collection of saliva samples for anonymous linked testing for HIV-1 antibodies. SETTING: Genitourinary medicine clinics and the gay community. SUBJECTS: Men (n = 677) who reported sexual contact with another man in the last 5 years. RESULTS: The majority of respondents (63%) had had an HIV-antibody test. Analysis of data showed that in 15% of the respondents' 1380 partnerships, HIV status was known by both parties. However, the majority of partnerships involved only safe sex. Only 26% of the partnerships in which unprotected penetrative anal sex had occurred involved mutual knowledge of HIV status and was most likely to occur with regular rather than non-regular/causal partners. Logistic regression revealed that this latter association could not be explained in terms of mutual HIV status knowledge. CONCLUSIONS: Despite widespread HIV testing, the majority of gay men engaging in high-risk sex are unaware of their partner's HIV status. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:6a0de931-6754-41a1-bc5e-633a4457b49d2022-03-26T18:55:01ZAwareness of sexual partners' HIV status as an influence upon high-risk sexual behaviour among gay men.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:6a0de931-6754-41a1-bc5e-633a4457b49dEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford1994Dawson, JFitzpatrick, RReeves, GBoulton, MMcLean, JHart, GBrookes, M OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the extent to which 'high-risk' sexual behaviour is influenced by awareness of partners' HIV status among gay men. DESIGN: Structured interviews and collection of saliva samples for anonymous linked testing for HIV-1 antibodies. SETTING: Genitourinary medicine clinics and the gay community. SUBJECTS: Men (n = 677) who reported sexual contact with another man in the last 5 years. RESULTS: The majority of respondents (63%) had had an HIV-antibody test. Analysis of data showed that in 15% of the respondents' 1380 partnerships, HIV status was known by both parties. However, the majority of partnerships involved only safe sex. Only 26% of the partnerships in which unprotected penetrative anal sex had occurred involved mutual knowledge of HIV status and was most likely to occur with regular rather than non-regular/causal partners. Logistic regression revealed that this latter association could not be explained in terms of mutual HIV status knowledge. CONCLUSIONS: Despite widespread HIV testing, the majority of gay men engaging in high-risk sex are unaware of their partner's HIV status. |
| spellingShingle | Dawson, J Fitzpatrick, R Reeves, G Boulton, M McLean, J Hart, G Brookes, M Awareness of sexual partners' HIV status as an influence upon high-risk sexual behaviour among gay men. |
| title | Awareness of sexual partners' HIV status as an influence upon high-risk sexual behaviour among gay men. |
| title_full | Awareness of sexual partners' HIV status as an influence upon high-risk sexual behaviour among gay men. |
| title_fullStr | Awareness of sexual partners' HIV status as an influence upon high-risk sexual behaviour among gay men. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Awareness of sexual partners' HIV status as an influence upon high-risk sexual behaviour among gay men. |
| title_short | Awareness of sexual partners' HIV status as an influence upon high-risk sexual behaviour among gay men. |
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