Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior

Sexual Responsibility: Key To HIV Prevention

Published in AIDS Weekly, June 17th, 1996

Dr. Ronald Bayer of Columbia University suggested that HIV prevention programs issue a call for sexual responsibility, in an essay in the June 6, 1996, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM 1996;334:1540-1542).

Issues that concern how HIV positive individuals should inform sexual partners of their HIV positive status, along with numerous other related questions, have prompted considerable controversy over the past decade. The issue of personal responsibility, especially in the early years of the epidemic, "... was often associated with condemnation of those whose sexual or drug-using behavior had exposed them to HIV, as well as with calls for invasion of...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1996-06-17)

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