Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 5-21-2012

Journal / Book Title

Health Education & Behavior

Abstract

In many ways, the HIV epidemic changed the discourse about sex in the United States and worldwide (Ehrhardt, 1992; Everett, 1986) and continues to drive approaches to sex education. After a period of rapid growth in the late 1980s (approximately 150,000 new infections per year), by the late 1990s HIV rates in the United States slowed to some 40,000 new infections annually (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2001), and new HIV infections continue to hover around that number. The first successful examples of behavior change that resulted in decreased HIV transmission emerged from communities of men who have sex with men (MSM; Coates, Richter, & Caceres, 2008). However, although the past decade has been marked by longer survival rates, and significant reductions in new infections in some population groups, MSM remain the largest HIV transmission category in the United States and the only one associated with an increasing number of HIV/AIDS diagnoses (CDC, 2008). In 2010, some 61% of newly diagnosed HIV infections were attributed to male-to-male sexual contact (CDC, 2012).

DOI

10.1177/1090198112446337

Published Citation

Lieberman, Lisa D. "Relationships and context as a means for improving disease prevention and sexual health messages." (2012): 255-258.

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