Sexual Partner Characteristics, Relationship Type, and HIV Risk Among a Community Venue-based Sample of Urban Adolescent and Young Adult Men Who Have Sex with Men

Overview

Journal Youth Soc

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 2019 Apr 16

PMID 30983642

Citations 10

Authors

Cherrie B Boyer

Lauren Greenberg

James Korelitz

Gary W Harper

Rachel Stewart-Campbell

Diane Straub

Renata Sanders

Lisa-Henry Reid

Donna Futterman

Sonia Lee

Jonathan M Ellen

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Abstract

Few studies have examined sexual partnerships and HIV risk in diverse samples of African American/black and Hispanic/Latino adolescent and young adult men who have sex with men (YMSM), a group that have a high burden of HIV in the U.S. A community-venue recruitment approach was used, which identified significant differences in HIV risk by sexual partner type among 1215 YMSM. Those with casual partners had a higher number of sexual partners, had more STIs, and were more likely to engage in transactional sex, to use alcohol, marijuana, or other substances compared with those with main partners only. Among those with female sexual partners, many used condoms "every time" when engaging in vaginal sex with casual partners, but a sizeable proportion "never/rarely" used condoms with their main partners. Our findings demonstrate a need for tailored HIV prevention education and counseling with necessary skills regarding consistent and correct condom use with all sexual partnerships.

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