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- From: rad!arthur@uunet.UU.NET (Arthur Hu)
- Subject: Number of partners unimportant?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 17:29:14 PST
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- Dr. Ron Stall of UCSF and Dan Wohlfieler of SF Stop AIDS (along with
- seemingly everybody on soc.motss) have told me that the number of
- partners is irrelevant as long as condoms are used all of the time,
- thus, the reason so many AIDS information ads and brocures omit
- the reduction of sex partners as a recommended strategy.
-
- My question is this - are there anys studies that show what the HIV
- rate is for gays or hetero-folk with large numbers of partners who
- use condoms all the time? It seems that there is a critical HIV
- prevalence rate at which even unremarkable behavior - say 5 lifetime
- partners with partners not at risk - still puts an individual at risk.
- This seems to be the conclusion of the study in Florida where 8% of
- black pregnant women were HIV+, and 30% of the women were at no
- unusual risk. So in a gay population that is 10% to 30% HIV+, isn't
- it possible that even sex with condoms with a small number of
- partners would still spread a significant number of AIDS cases?
-
- And since people do not use condoms 100% of the time, espeically in
- conjunction with alchohol or drugs, isn't it a good idea to reduce
- the number of partners anyways? Am I correct in that the general
- consensus is that thou shalt not advocate reducing number of partners?
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