Document 0366
 DOCN  M9590366
 TI    Sydney men and sexual health: negotiated safety in a cohort of
       homosexually active men.
 DT    9509
 AU    Prestage G; Kippax S; Noble J; Crawford J; Cooper D; Baxter D; National
       Centre in HIV Social Research, Darlinghurst, NSW.
 SO    Annu Conf Australas Soc HIV Med. 1994 Nov 3-6;6:125 (unnumbered
       abstract). Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE ASHM6/95291733
 AB    Sydney Men and Sexual Health (SMASH) is a cohort study of 903
       homosexually active men involving an initial interview, with follow-up
       interviews every six to twelve months and clinical tests. Data collected
       includes HIV sero-status, knowledge of HIV, personal relationships, safe
       and unsafe sexual behaviour, contact with the epidemic, health, and
       involvement in the gay community. An examination of data concerning the
       use of condoms during intercourse with regular and casual partners,
       types of sexual practice, HIV status, and types of agreements between
       partners, finds that notions of safety in sexual relationships are
       highly complex and based on quite sophisticated understandings of HIV
       transmission. This paper will present some of these findings which
       highlight the complex ways in which individual gay men make decisions
       about their sexual behaviour and how these are reflected in the
       arrangements they make with their male sexual partners. Agreements
       between regular male partners about sexual behaviour both within and
       outside relationships are highly predictive of safe and unsafe sexual
       behaviour. Their knowledge of the HIV status of sexual partners is an
       important factor in such agreements.
 DE    Follow-Up Studies  Homosexuality, Male/*PSYCHOLOGY  Human  HIV
       Infections/*PREVENTION & CONTROL/PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  *Knowledge,
       Attitudes, Practice  Male  *Negotiating  New South Wales  *Sex Behavior
       Sexual Partners/PSYCHOLOGY  *Urban Population  MEETING ABSTRACT

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