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A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents with Perinatally or Transfusion Acquired HIV Infection: Sexual Knowledge, Risk Reduction Self-efficacy and Sexual Behavior

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As HIV-positive children are surviving to adolescence and beyond, understanding their HIV knowledge and sexual behavior is critical. Forty HIV+ adolescents/young adults were interviewed twice, approximately 21 months apart (mean age 16.6 and 18.3 years, respectively). Data on demographics, safer sex knowledge, sexual risk behaviors, risk reduction self-efficacy, and Tanner stage were collected. Twenty-eight percent of HIV+ youth at Time 1 and 41% at Time 2 reported being sexually active. HIV transmission/safer sex knowledge was low, increased with age, and both self-efficacy for and actual condom use was relatively high. Secondary prevention messages should be incorporated into routine medical settings.

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  1. Adolescents with transfusion associated HIV acquired their infection prior to implementation of standard HIV screening of the blood supply.

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This research was supported [in part] by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research. The authors would like to acknowledge Jordana Sternberg and Kathryn Romansky for their help in data collection, Celia Ryder for her careful review of this manuscript, as well as the patients and families who participated in this research for sharing their experiences with us.

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  1. HIV/AIDS Malignancy Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Building 10, Pediatric Clinic I-SE, Room I-6466, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA

    Lori S. Wiener, Haven B. Battles & Lauren V. Wood

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Wiener, L.S., Battles, H.B. & Wood, L.V. A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents with Perinatally or Transfusion Acquired HIV Infection: Sexual Knowledge, Risk Reduction Self-efficacy and Sexual Behavior. AIDS Behav 11, 471–478 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-006-9162-y

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