Men Who have Sex with Men Who Believe that Their State has a HIV Criminal Law Report Higher Condomless Anal Sex than Those Who are Unsure of the Law in Their State.

Keith J Horvath, Craig Meyer, B R Simon Rosser

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Article in AIDS and behavior, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

HIV Criminalization Laws and Enforcement: Assessing the Relationship Between HIV Criminalization at the State Level, Policing at the County Level, and County-level HIV Incidence Rates.AIDS and behavior · 2023
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Development and Validation of a Multivariable Prediction Model for Missed HIV Health Care Provider Visits in a Large US Clinical Cohort.Open forum infectious diseases · 2021
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Prosecution of non-disclosure of HIV status: Potential impact on HIV testing and transmission among HIV-negative men who have sex with men.PloS one · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Keith J HorvathDivision of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 S. 2nd Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN, 55454, USA. horva018@umn.edu.

Craig MeyerDivision of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 S. 2nd Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN, 55454, USA.

B R Simon RosserDivision of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 S. 2nd Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN, 55454, USA.

Funding

Structural Factors to Lower Alcohol-Related HIV RiskR01AA016270 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI ROSSER, B R SIMON · 2006 to 2010

$3.2M

NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA016270World Health Organization 001

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We assessed the effects of beliefs about state HIV criminal law on condomless anal sex (CAS < 3 months) among men who have sex with men (MSM) residing in 16 US states (n = 2013; M = 36 years old; 75 % White; 82 % HIV-negative) completing an online survey in 2010 and stratified by residency in a state with any or sex-specific HIV criminal law(s) or where a HIV-related arrest, prosecution, or sentence enhancement (APSE) had occurred. Three-quarters of MSM reported that they were unsure of the law in their state. Men who believed there was a HIV law in their state but lived in states without any or a sex-specific HIV criminal law(s) had higher probabilities of CAS compared to those who were unsure of their state's law; men who believed there was a HIV law in their state and lived in a state where an APSE had occurred had higher probabilities of CAS compared to those who were unsure of their state's law. Correct knowledge of state law was not associated with CAS. Findings suggest that HIV criminal laws have little or counter-productive effects on MSM's risk behavior.

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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHIV InfectionsSexual and Gender MinoritiesAdultBisexualityCrimeHispanic or LatinoHomosexuality, MaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRisk-TakingSexual BehaviorSurveys and QuestionnairesUnited StatesUnsafe SexCondomless anal sexHIV criminal lawMen who have sex with menPolicy

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PMID26780329

DOI10.1007/s10461-016-1286-0

PMCPMC4947446

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