HIV Transmission (Health)

Fear and Appraisal of Safe-Sex Warnings in NY Scare

Published in AIDS Weekly, November 24th, 1997

Nushawn W. stares out from the flier, a warning printed above his mug shot and his street names - Face, Shoe, Shyteek, JoJo - listed below.

It could be a wanted poster. But the 20-year-old drifter with a bullet in his leg and a stabbing scar behind his ear already is behind bars.

Concerned health officials from rural western New York to New York City helped institute the poster campaign to warn the man's sex partners that he may have given them HIV - knowingly in some cases - authorities contend.

The warning is one young people may not hear enough. Some of the 500 parents and youths at a town meeting the night of October 29,...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1997-11-24)

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