Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior
"Health Education Among Gay and Bisexual Men: What the 'Safer-Sex Message' Left Out."
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 11th, 1998
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, held March 8-11, 1998, in Atlanta, Georgia, "Issue: Traditional safer sex messages have focused on effective methods to reduce the risk of HIV infection. Among populations of men who have sex with men (MSM), there are also concerns regarding the communicability of various bacterial and viral infections (hepatitis A, amebiasis, giardiasis, Shigella) via the fecal-oral route. In Massachusetts, there has been a three-fold increase in hepatitis A among men from 1994 to 1996. Many of the cases have been linked to sexual transmission among MSM. We have also noted that...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (1998-05-11)
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