Koopman C, Meyer-Bahlburg H, Rotheram-Borus MJ, Rosario M, Henderson R, Exner T, Ehrhardt A; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1990 Jun 20-23; 6: 234 (abstract no. S.C.580).
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, NYS Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, NY, NY, USA
OBJECTIVE: We know little about sexual risk behavior among minority youth; therefore our goal was to describe sexual risk behaviors in two samples of believed to be at highest risk for HIV infection--gay and runaway males. METHODS: Sixty-two males at HMI, a community agency for gay and lesbian youth and 59 male runaways at two shelters were recruited. Both samples were predominantly Black and Hispanic. Trained interviewers interviewed youths extensively about their sexual behavior. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: 1) Most had begun to engage in high risk activities at an early age (mean age of initiation of receptive anal sex for HMI males was 14.2 and of penile-vaginal intercourse for male runaways was 10.7). 2) Many had experienced sexual activity with both sexes (57% of HMI males reported sexual relations with females and 10% of runaway males reported sexual relations with males). 3) Condom use was infrequent among the sexually active (77% of HMI males and 62% of male runaways reported infrequent condom use in previous 3 months). 4) Having multiple sexual partners was common (40% of HMI males had engaged in sexual relations with more than 10 male partners and 51% of runaway males had engaged in sexual relations with more than 10 female partners.) 5) Anal sex, likely the highest risk activity, had been recently experienced by many of these youth (47% of HMI males had engaged in receptive anal sex; 19% of male runaways had engaged in insertive anal sex).
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Keywords:
- Adolescent
- Adolescent Behavior
- Contraceptive Devices, Male
- Female
- HIV Infections
- Homeless Youth
- Homosexuality
- Homosexuality, Female
- Homosexuality, Male
- Humans
- Male
- Minority Groups
- Risk-Taking
- Sexual Behavior
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UI: 102196406
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