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Article: Prevalence of Unprotected Sex and HIV-Antibody Testing Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth.(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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Adolescents between the ages of 13 and 21 now account for 25% of newly reported HIV infections, and two adolescents under the age of 21 become infected with HIV every hour (Office of National AIDS Policy, 1996). While adolescents' infection rates are increasing as a whole, gay and bisexual male adolescents are particularly at risk. In New York City, 9% of gay or bisexual men between the ages of 18 and 24 are HIV infected (Dean & Meyer, 1995), and in San Francisco up to 17.9% of these young males are infected (Osmond et al., 1994). In a Houston study, although only 2% of adolescents reported male-to-male sexual contact, they accounted for 22% of all HIV-positive cases, with ...