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. 1994 Dec;84(12):1933–1937. doi: 10.2105/ajph.84.12.1933

HIV infection in homosexual and bisexual men 18 to 29 years of age: the San Francisco Young Men's Health Study.

D H Osmond 1, K Page 1, J Wiley 1, K Garrett 1, H W Sheppard 1, A R Moss 1, L Schrager 1, W Winkelstein 1
PMCID: PMC1615371  PMID: 7998633

Abstract

OBJECTIVES. Recent studies suggest very high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection rates in some populations of younger homosexual men, but these studies may represent only particularly high-risk populations. The current study obtained population-based data on the HIV epidemic in young homosexual/bisexual men. METHODS. A household survey of unmarried men 18 through 29 years of age involved a multistage probability sample of addresses in San Francisco. A follow-up interview and HIV test for men who were HIV negative at baseline were completed; the median follow-up was 8.9 months. RESULTS. Sixty-eight of 380 homosexual/bisexual men (17.9%) tested HIV seropositive. Sixty-three percent of men reported one or more receptive anal intercourse partners in the previous 12 months, and 41% of those men did not use condoms consistently. The HIV seroincidence rate among those seronegative at first study was 2.6% per year. CONCLUSIONS. HIV infection rates in young homosexual men in San Francisco are lower than those in the early 1980s; however, the rate of infection in these men, most of whom became sexually active after awareness of AIDS had become widespread, threatens to continue the epidemic in the younger generation at a level not far below that of a decade ago.

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