The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #153828 Message #3612559
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
25-Mar-14 - 03:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: Discussion of HIV transmission.
Subject: RE: BS: Discussion of HIV transmission.
National Aids Trust. "Available evidence indicates many MSM in the UK have high numbers of sexual partners and that there are significant opportunities for sexual mixing. Given the importance of partnership patterns to HIV transmission, we should look at what we know about such patterns amongst MSM in the UK. The 2007 Gay Men's Sex Survey states: 'As every year, respondents were very varied in their number of sexual partners. Among the men who had a male sex partner in the last year, 21.4% indicated they had one male partner only; 27.6% had two, three or four male partners; 24.4% had between five and twelve male partners; 13.4% had between thirteen and 29 male partners; and the remaining 13.4% had thirty or more male partners in the last year'"
"In short, evidence suggests a strong association between higher partner numbers and infection with HIV as well as other STIs"