Document 0205
 DOCN  M95B0205
 TI    Preference for sex on amphetamine: a marker for HIV risk behaviour among
       male intravenous amphetamine users in Stockholm.
 DT    9511
 AU    Kall K; Nilsonne A; Department of Psychiatry, Karolinska Institute, St
       Gorans; Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
 SO    AIDS Care. 1995;7(2):171-88. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/95345146
 AB    Two hundred injecting drug users at the Remand Prison in Stockholm
       participated in an interview study of sexual behaviour in parallel to an
       ongoing HIV epidemiological study. Fifty-four subjects were women and
       146 were men. Amphetamine was the main drug used by 115 and heroin by
       85. Twenty-six were HIV seropositive. Sexual activity was reported as
       the preferred activity on amphetamine by 51% of the male and 20% of the
       female amphetamine injectors. Among the 74 men who mainly injected
       amphetamine the characteristic of preferring sex on amphetamine was
       strongly associated with positive HIV serostatus in bivariate analysis,
       but was not independently predictive of HIV serostatus when injection
       frequency was controlled for. The results suggest that preferring sex on
       amphetamine may be viewed as a marker of high risk behaviour, both
       sexually and with needles, for HIV among male but not among female
       amphetamine injectors.
 DE    Adult  *Amphetamine  Female  Human  HIV Seronegativity  HIV
       Seropositivity/*PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  Male  Predictive Value of Tests
       Prisoners/PSYCHOLOGY  Questionnaires  *Risk-Taking  *Sex Behavior
       Substance Abuse, Intravenous/COMPLICATIONS/*PSYCHOLOGY  Support,
       Non-U.S. Gov't  Sweden  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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