Preventive health behaviors among lesbian and bisexually identified women.

The current research aimed to better understand the preventive health behaviors of lesbian and bisexually identified women. We recruited lesbian and bisexual women at a large-scale Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual (GLB) event in New York City. An ethnically diverse sample of 102 lesbian and 23 bisexually identified women who had sex with women from the New York City metropolitan area completed a quantitative survey.

Positive and negative consequences of HIV disclosure among seropositive injection drug users.

This study examines HIV status disclosure in an ethnically diverse sample of HIV-seropositive injection drug users (IDUs) from New York City and San Francisco. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 158 participants. Analyses revealed a number of negative and positive consequences of disclosing serostatus to sexual partners.

HIV serostatus disclosure to sexual partners among HIV-positive injection drug users.

Utilizing mixed methods analyses with cross-sectional data from an ethnically diverse sample of HIV-seropositive injection drug users (IDUs), we sought to examine disclosure and sexual behavior based on partner type, partner serostatus, and transmission risk. Results indicated that more participants disclosed to their HIV-positive sex partners than to their HIV-negative or unknown status sex partners. However, unexpectedly, we found that more participants disclosed to casual sex partners than primary partners before first sexual contact.