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AIDS prevention in homosexual and bisexual men
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Aids Risk-reduction InterventionsHomosexualityQueer TheorySocial SciencesPsychologySexual CommunicationGender StudiesAids PreventionPublic HealthSexual And Reproductive HealthPregnancy PreventionBehavioral SciencesHivSexual BehaviorSkills TrainingSexual HealthTreatment And PreventionSexual IdentitySexual OrientationHuman Sexuality
The study evaluates two AIDS risk‑reduction interventions for homosexual and bisexual men. Participants were randomized into two peer‑led interventions—both including a safer‑sex lecture, with one adding skills‑training sessions—and followed up at 6 and 12 months to assess self‑reported behavior changes. Skills training increased condom use for insertive anal intercourse, raising usage by 44% versus 11% in sessions without training.
This study evaluates two AIDS risk-reduction interventions targeted at homosexual and bisexual men. Participants were randomized into two peer-led interventions: both involved a lecture on ‘safer sex’, and one provided a skills-training component during which men could discuss and rehearse the negotiation of safer sexual encounters. Follow-up data collection assessed self-reported changes in sexual behavior at 6 and 12 months. Skills training increased condom use for insertive anal intercourse. In sessions providing skills training, condom use increased, on average, by 44% between pre-test and second follow-up compared with only 11% on average in sessions which did not provide such training.