Communication of HIV serostatus between potential sex partners in personal ads  

Oleh:

Hamers, Francoise F ; Bueller, Howard A. ; Peterman, Thomas A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Aids Education and Prevention: An Interdisciplinary Journal vol. 09 no. 01 (Feb. 1997), page 42-48.
Topik: HIV Relationship; HIV/AIDS; HIV

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: A94 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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We studied reference to HIV in personal ads from 1986 to 1993 to assess knowledge of HIV serostatus as a criterion for selecting sex partners. Personals increased exponentially during 1986 to 1993. Men seeking men (MSM) were more likely (8 %) to mention HIV than persons seeking other situations (0% to 1.6%). The proportion of personals mentioning HIV increased from 0.5 % to 2.9 % globally and from 1.9% to 12.2% for MSM (chi-square tests for trend; p < .001). Younger MSM mentioned HIV less often than MSM older than 35 years (odds ratio = .46; 95% confidence interval: .31 to .70). The increasing proportion of personals mentioning HIV suggests that serostatus is increasingly used as a criterion for partner selection, although most (84 %) such ads concerned MSM. We discuss the implications of these findings for preventing sexual transmission of HIV.

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