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Male sex work related to HIV infection among men who have sex with men in San Francisco

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 30th, 2006

Male sex work is strongly associated with HIV infection among men who have sex with men in San Francisco.

"The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between sex work and HIV infection among young injection drug-using men who have sex with men (MSM-IDU).

"This study was a cross-sectional analysis of behavioral and serologic data collected from 227 street-recruited MSM-IDU in San Francisco, California, between January 2000 and November 2001," scientists in the United States report.

According to O. Bacon and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, "Sixty-eight percent of participants reported...

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