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Disclosure of HIV serostatus and condomless sex among men living with HIV/AIDS in Florida
Despite campaigns to increase safer sex practices, there are people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) who do not disclose their HIV status to sexual partners and engage in condomless sex. The purpose of this research was to: 1) describe factors associated with disclosure of HIV status to sexual partners;...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6296664/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30557362 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207838 |
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author | Cook, Christa L. Staras, Stephanie A. S. Zhou, Zhi Chichetto, Natalie Cook, Robert L. |
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description | Despite campaigns to increase safer sex practices, there are people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) who do not disclose their HIV status to sexual partners and engage in condomless sex. The purpose of this research was to: 1) describe factors associated with disclosure of HIV status to sexual partners; and 2) determine if disclosure and/or receipt of prevention counseling are independently associated with condomless sex. We used the Florida Medical Monitoring Project to analyze data from 376 HIV positive men with more than one sexual partner. Results indicated that 55% consistently disclosed their HIV status to sexual partners, 30% inconsistently disclosed, 15% did not disclose, and 48% reported any condomless sex. The odds of having condomless sex was 3.3 (CI = 1.5, 7.3) times greater in men who disclosed to all partners. Results suggest that men who disclose are also those who are more likely to have condomless sex. More research is needed to better understand the complex nature of disclosure and sexual risk behaviors and how disclosure impacts sexual risk. |
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spelling | pubmed-62966642018-12-28 Disclosure of HIV serostatus and condomless sex among men living with HIV/AIDS in Florida Cook, Christa L. Staras, Stephanie A. S. Zhou, Zhi Chichetto, Natalie Cook, Robert L. PLoS One Research Article Despite campaigns to increase safer sex practices, there are people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) who do not disclose their HIV status to sexual partners and engage in condomless sex. The purpose of this research was to: 1) describe factors associated with disclosure of HIV status to sexual partners; and 2) determine if disclosure and/or receipt of prevention counseling are independently associated with condomless sex. We used the Florida Medical Monitoring Project to analyze data from 376 HIV positive men with more than one sexual partner. Results indicated that 55% consistently disclosed their HIV status to sexual partners, 30% inconsistently disclosed, 15% did not disclose, and 48% reported any condomless sex. The odds of having condomless sex was 3.3 (CI = 1.5, 7.3) times greater in men who disclosed to all partners. Results suggest that men who disclose are also those who are more likely to have condomless sex. More research is needed to better understand the complex nature of disclosure and sexual risk behaviors and how disclosure impacts sexual risk. Public Library of Science 2018-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6296664/ /pubmed/30557362 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207838 Text en © 2018 Cook et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Cook, Christa L. Staras, Stephanie A. S. Zhou, Zhi Chichetto, Natalie Cook, Robert L. Disclosure of HIV serostatus and condomless sex among men living with HIV/AIDS in Florida |
title | Disclosure of HIV serostatus and condomless sex among men living with HIV/AIDS in Florida |
title_full | Disclosure of HIV serostatus and condomless sex among men living with HIV/AIDS in Florida |
title_fullStr | Disclosure of HIV serostatus and condomless sex among men living with HIV/AIDS in Florida |
title_full_unstemmed | Disclosure of HIV serostatus and condomless sex among men living with HIV/AIDS in Florida |
title_short | Disclosure of HIV serostatus and condomless sex among men living with HIV/AIDS in Florida |
title_sort | disclosure of hiv serostatus and condomless sex among men living with hiv/aids in florida |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6296664/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30557362 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207838 |
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