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Research indicates that poz-on-poz sex

POZ Poll: Have you ever felt stigmatized in a health care setting because of your gender or sexual identity? Grindr Spreads the Word About DoxyPEP and Condoms to Prevent STIs [VIDEO] It’s the 23rd National LGBTQ Health Awareness Week. This year’s theme is “Health Equity NOW!”. A friend recently asked me if I ever sexually discriminated against poz guys prior to my own HIV diagnosis.

Bizarrely, I couldn’t remember and had to take a thorough mental inventory of my sexual history (or all the times I could remember). Brandon's POZ Party - NYC was a MSM gathering designed to empower the HIV+ gay and Bisexual communities to just be themselves, and to keep their identities confidential across the board. Research indicates that poz-on-poz sex is much more likely to include barebacking (unprotected sex), and that means the potential of pitting a sometimes compromised immune system against other.

Poz, short for positive, is a term used to refer to individuals who are HIV -positive. This slang term has been around since the early days of the AIDS epidemic and was initially used as a way for people within the gay community to identify one another without drawing attention from outsiders. Sex parties where HIV-positive gay men meet for unprotected sex could help reduce the spread of HIV, but could involve a risk of sexually transmitted infections and superinfection with resistant strains of HIV, according to a pilot study conducted in New York and published in the October edition of Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Although there has been extensive research into the sexual behaviour of gay men in recent years, little is known about gay sex parties. Therefore researchers set out to describe the characteristics of men who attend POZ parties, their reasons for doing so, the types of sex they engaged in at such parties, their drug use at these events and their sexual behaviour outside of parties which involved other HIV-positive men.

As a risk reduction strategy, the drawback for HIV-negative people is that they can only be certain of their HIV status when they last took a test, whereas HIV-positive people can be confident they know their status. Small-scale, preliminary study, conducted to evaluate feasibility, time, cost, adverse events, and improve upon the design of a future full-scale research project.

When somebody already infected with HIV is exposed to a different strain of HIV and becomes infected with it in addition to their existing virus.

Amyl, butyl or isobutyl nitrite, are recreational drugs sniffed during sex to both intensify the experience and relax anal sphincter muscles. Investigators interviewed a total of men at ten POZ party events in New York in the second half of The median duration of HIV infection was ten years, although this ranged between two months and 20 years. A sexually transmitted infection in the year prior to attending the sex party was reported by a third of men.

Men reported attending events in several north American cities and in Europe. There was little evidence of drug use at POZ party events. In addition, the investigators observed little evidence of drug use other than poppers. The investigators draw a number of inferences from their study. Secondly, drug use is not a dominant feature of these events; and, thirdly, sex parties involving HIV-positive gay men may provide an as yet unrealised opportunity for health promotion.

Clatts MC et al. Sex Transm Infect — , Sexual transmission. Primary tabs View active tab Preview. Michael Carter. Estimated reading time 3 minutes. This article is more than 20 years old. Click here for more recent articles on this topic. Glossary serosorting Choosing sexual partners of the same HIV status, or restricting condomless sex to partners of the same HIV status.

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