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September 2002, Vol 92, No. 9 | American Journal of Public Health 1387-1388
© 2002 American Public Health Association

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CONTINUING INCREASES IN SEXUAL RISK BEHAVIOR AND SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AMONG MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF, 1999–2001

Sanny Y. Chen, MHS, Steven Gibson, MSW, Mitchell H. Katz, MD, Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, MPH, James W. Dilley, MD, Sandra K. Schwarcz, MD, MPH, Timothy A. Kellogg, MA and Willi McFarland, MD, PhD

At the time of the study, Sanny Y. Chen was with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md, and the San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, Calif. Willi McFarland, Mitchell H. Katz, Sandra K. Schwarcz, Timothy A. Kellogg, and Jeffrey D. Klausner were with the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Steven Gibson was with the Stop AIDS Project, San Francisco, Calif. James W. Dilley is with the AIDS Health Project, University of California, San Francisco.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Willi McFarland, MD, PhD, 25 Van Ness Ave, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94102 (e-mail: willi.mcfarland@sfdph.org).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We recently reported on worrisome increases in sexual risk behavior, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and HIV incidence among men who have sex with men (MSM) during a period of increasing use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), from 1994 to 1999.1 We have since obtained data on sexual risk behavior for 2000 and 2001. In addition, we have added to our surveys questions on whether unsafe sex was occurring with partners of unknown HIV serostatus, updated trends in male rectal gonorrhea, and provided data on primary and secondary syphilis cases among MSM.

As previously reported, the Stop AIDS Project conducts . . . [Full Text]




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