Document 0284
 DOCN  M9440284
 TI    Data from the National AIDS Behavioral Surveys. I. Sexual risk for human
       immunodeficiency virus infection among women in high-risk cities.
 DT    9404
 AU    Grinstead OA; Faigeles B; Binson D; Eversley R; Department of Medicine,
       University of California, San Francisco.
 SO    Fam Plann Perspect. 1993 Nov-Dec;25(6):252-6, 277. Unique Identifier :
       AIDSLINE MED/94148057
 AB    Data from 3,482 women aged 18-49 living in 23 urban areas of the United
       States who participated in the 1990-1991 National AIDS Behavioral
       Surveys show that in the preceding year, approximately 15% engaged in
       sexual behavior that might expose them to the human immunodeficiency
       virus (HIV). Risk behaviors include having multiple sexual partners,
       having a risky main sexual partner or having both multiple partners and
       a risky main partner. An additional 17% of women with no other risk
       factor report that they do not know their main partner's HIV risk
       status. Predictors of risk factors vary by ethnicity, and having
       multiple partners and having a risky main partner appear to have
       distinct sets of predictors. Single women are more likely than others to
       have multiple partners, and among white women, those with more than 12
       years of education are more likely to have multiple partners. Among
       blacks and Hispanics, younger women are more likely than older women to
       have multiple partners. Among Hispanic women, married respondents and
       those with more than 12 years of education are more likely than others
       to have a risky main sexual partner; the latter pattern is reversed
       among white women, however, with those having less than 12 years of
       education being more likely to have a risky main sexual partner. In
       general, women with a risky main partner are the least likely to use
       condoms consistently.
 DE    Adolescence  Adult  Age Factors  Condoms/UTILIZATION  Educational Status
       *Ethnic Groups  Female  Health Surveys  Human  HIV
       Infections/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  *HIV Seroprevalence  Marital
       Status  Middle Age  Risk Factors  Risk-Taking  *Sex Behavior  Sexual
       Partners  Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.  United States/EPIDEMIOLOGY
       *Urban Health  *Women's Health  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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