TY - JOUR
T1 - 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
AU - The Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions
AU - Boyer, Cherrie B.
AU - Greenberg, Lauren
AU - Korelitz, James
AU - Harper, Gary W.
AU - Stewart-Campbell, Rachel
AU - Straub, Diane
AU - Sanders, Renata
AU - Reid, Lisa Henry
AU - Futterman, Donna
AU - Lee, Sonia
AU - Ellen, Jonathan M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded by the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) from the National Institutes of Health (U01 HD 040533 and U01 HD 040474) through the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (B. Kapogiannis), with supplemental funding from the National Institutes on Drug Abuse (R. Jenkins) and Mental Health (P. Brouwers, S. Allison).
Funding Information:
This article was scientifically reviewed and approved by the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN’s) Community Prevention Leadership Group. Network, scientific, and logistical support was provided by the ATN Coordinating Center (C. Wilson, C. Partlow) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The ATN Data and Operations Center at Westat, Inc., provided network operations and analytic support (B. Driver, B. Harris). Technical assistance, training, and protocol support was provided by the National Coordinating Center at Johns Hopkins University.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - 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 United States. A community–venue recruitment approach was used, which identified significant differences in HIV risk by sexual partner type among 1,215 YMSM. Those with casual partners had a higher number of sexual partners, had more sexually transmitted infections (STIs), were more likely to engage in transactional sex, and 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 sizable 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.
AB - 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 United States. A community–venue recruitment approach was used, which identified significant differences in HIV risk by sexual partner type among 1,215 YMSM. Those with casual partners had a higher number of sexual partners, had more sexually transmitted infections (STIs), were more likely to engage in transactional sex, and 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 sizable 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.
KW - HIV risk
KW - community–venue sampling
KW - sexual partner characteristics
KW - young men who have sex with men
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U2 - 10.1177/0044118X16669259
DO - 10.1177/0044118X16669259
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85060857558
SN - 0044-118X
VL - 51
SP - 219
EP - 246
JO - Youth and Society
JF - Youth and Society
IS - 2
ER -
