At-Risk Populations

Promising AIDS Treatments May Foster Risky Sex

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 1st, 1997

People resuming risky practices because they think new treatments have made AIDS less of a health threat are increasing their risk of acquiring HIV, according to a small-scale survey of gay men in San Francisco, California.

"Our findings suggest that recent advances in treatment are affecting the sexual decision-making" of some men who have escaped infection with HIV, according to Dr. James Dilley and his colleagues at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF).

Their survey results were published in the August 14, 1997, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

At least 275,000 Americans are living with an HIV...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1997-09-01)

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