Open AccessRacial Differences in Same-Race Partnering and the Effects of Sexual Partnership Characteristics on HIV Risk in MSM
Author(s) -
Michael E. Newcomb,
Brian Mustanski
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0b013e31827e5f8c
Subject(s) - demography , men who have sex with men , odds , condom , psychology , psychological intervention , sexual partner , young adult , odds ratio , gerontology , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , logistic regression , family medicine , psychiatry , syphilis , sociology , gonorrhea , pathology
Men who have sex with men (MSM) account for more than half of new HIV infections each year, and young black MSM experience the highest incidence rates. Black MSM have not been found to engage in more HIV risk behaviors, and it has been proposed that sexual network factors (racially homophilous networks) and partnership characteristics (influence of older partners and familiarity with partners) may help account for this disparity.