Bisexualities and AIDS

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Author: Peter Aggleton

ISBN-10: 0748405763

ISBN-13: 9780748405763

Category: Bisexuals -> Health issues

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Since early-on in the epidemic, there has been much interest in the role that bisexual behaviour among men may play in HIV transmission. This text reviews from an international perspective what has been learned about male bisexuality in countries as diverse as Peru and Britain. Its authors examine the forms that bisexuality takes in different cultures, what it means to the men concerned, and whether or not such behaviour poses special risks. The implications of such enquiry for HIV prevention efforts are also examined.

PrefaceCh. 1Positive Women and Heterosexuality: Problems of Disclosure of Serostatus to Sexual Partners1Ch. 2Suffering in Silence? Public Visibility, Private Secrets and the Social Construction of AIDS15Ch. 3Opportunity Lost: HIV/AIDS, Disability and Legislation25Ch. 4AIDS Policy Communities in Australia41Ch. 5Constraints in the Development of Sexual Health Alliances58Ch. 6'I Don't Know What I Need to Know': A Peer Sexual Health Project by Young Disabled People73Ch. 7Doubly Deviant? Women Drug Injectors and their Use of Drug Problem Services87Ch. 8Sexual Debut and the Risk of HIV Infection among Young Gay Men in Norway100Ch. 9HIV Services for Women in East London: the Match between Provision and Needs122Ch. 10Professionalism and Sexual Identity in Gay and Bisexual Men's HIV Prevention142Ch. 11Towards Targeted HIV Prevention: an Ethnographic Study of Young Gay Men in London170Ch. 12Identities and Gay Men's Sexual Decision-making192Ch. 13State-Sponsored Gayness: Ghettoization as a Response to HIV/AIDS213Ch. 14Sexual Negotiation Strategies of HIV-Positive Gay Men: a Qualitative Approach226Notes on Contributors238Index244