Although HIV is contracted by individuals, it is typically transmitted in dyads. Most efforts to
promote safer sex practices, however, focus exclusively on individuals. The goal of this …

Although we are now entering the third decade of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, a considerable
amount of uncertainty remains regarding what have come to be known as “gray area …

HIV prevention programs targeted to heterosexuals have most often been delivered in
individual or group modalities that principally focus on women as the agents of change. To …

Most HIV prevention efforts have focused on discouraging behaviors associated with a high
risk of infection, such as having unprotected sex with numerous sexual partners. In addition …

Despite the importance of the dyad in HIV risk reduction in both domestic and international
settings, there is a gap in behavioral HIV prevention science regarding the availability of …

This book focuses on safer sex discussion and practice in close, personal relationships,
emphasizing research on individuals in personal relationship types that are experiencing a …

It is estimated that women currently consitute 40% of the global total of HIV-infected adults
[1]. The World Health Organization estimates that almost half of all newly infected adults …

In 1981, AIDS was first diagnosed in the United States. Since then, more than 250,000
Americans have died of AIDS and by the year 2000 it was estimated that 40 million people …

A review of research on AIDS preventive behavior indicates that minority and nonminority
heterosexual adolescents and adults, gay men, injection drug users, and commercial sex …

Multiple and overlapping sexual relationships, commonly referred to as sexual concurrency,
are believed by some to account for the rapid spread of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa …