Why HIV Infections Have Increased Among Men Who Have Sex with Men and What to Do About It: Findings from California Focus Groups
| Autor: | Jonathan E. Volk, Torsten B. Neilands, Wayne T. Steward, Thomas J. Coates, Stephen F. Morin, Thomas H. Riess, John Jay Harcourt, Marisa Mclaughlin, Karen Vernon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Male Safe Sex medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Social Psychology Sexual Behavior Population Ethnic group California Men who have sex with men Social support Catchment Area Health Unsafe Sex HIV Seropositivity Ethnicity medicine Humans Interpersonal Relations Homosexuality Male education education.field_of_study business.industry Communication Incidence Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Social Support virus diseases Middle Aged Focus group Health psychology Infectious Diseases business Attitude to Health Social psychology Demography |
| Zdroj: | AIDS and Behavior. 7:353-362 |
| ISSN: | 1090-7165 |
| Popis: | A resurgence of sexual risk taking, STDs, and HIV incidence has been reported among men who have sex with men (MSM) in several countries. We asked 113 MSM in 12 focus groups conducted in five California cities to identify factors leading to increased risk taking and assess prevention messages to reduce risk in this population. Participants perceived that HIV risk taking has increased because (1) HIV is not the threat it once was due to more effective therapies, (2) MSM communicate less about HIV, and social support for being safe has decreased, and (3) community norms have shifted such that unsafe sex is more acceptable. The prevention messages ranked most likely to motivate risk reduction encouraged individuals to seek social support from friends. Themes ranked least likely to succeed were those that described the negative consequences of HIV or reinforced existing safer sex messages. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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