Davies P; Australasian Society for HIV Medicine. Conference.
Annu Conf Australas Soc HIV Med. 1996 Nov 14-17; 8: 36 (abstract no. 4).
Unit 64, Eurolink Business Centre, London, UK.
In 1993, Australian researchers coined the term "negotiated safety" for a risk reduction strategy among gay men in regular relationships. This marked an important milestone in behavioural research into HIV by focussing attention away from the identification of groups of men who had unsafe sex towards an examination of the contexts in which unsafe sex happened; as well as rendering problematic the notion of "unsafe sex" as an unchangeable list of banned practices. A recent, extensive, qualitative study by Sigma Research has shown that negotiated safety as originally conceived, is one of a range of risk reduction responses by men in regular relationships, which also have to cope with lapses from previously agreed strategies. This range of approaches and contingent problems will be described, and the implications of these findings for HIV prevention policies discussed. The findings will be placed in the context of other work by research groups.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Demography
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Homosexuality
- Homosexuality, Male
- Humans
- Interpersonal Relations
- Male
- Negotiating
- Unsafe Sex
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UI: 102221842
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