The HIV test and sexual behaviour in a sample of homosexually active men

The Undetectable Crisis: Changing Technologies of Risk

“…7. Compare NSW Australia, where legal reforms were successful and testing was popular (Kippax et al, 1993) to the United Kingdom, where testing was not taken up by the majority of gay men (Dawson et al, 1991). Flowers argues that though this was the case in the UK, gay men's 'understanding of themselves was [still] profoundly altered as the containment and management of risk and infection was conceptualized at the level of difference between bodies' (2001: 56).…”

The Undetectable Crisis: Changing Technologies of Risk

“…7. Compare NSW Australia, where legal reforms were successful and testing was popular (Kippax et al, 1993) to the United Kingdom, where testing was not taken up by the majority of gay men (Dawson et al, 1991). Flowers argues that though this was the case in the UK, gay men's 'understanding of themselves was [still] profoundly altered as the containment and management of risk and infection was conceptualized at the level of difference between bodies' (2001: 56).…”

Gay Men and HIV/AIDS Risk Management

“…In the UK at least, HIV testing, even after it became available, was not immediately taken up by the majority of gay men (e.g. Dawson et al, 1991). Instead, the somatic notion of risk and its reduction was manifested in the construction of the relationship between generic or universal bodies and their various sexual positionings.…”

Revised Guidelines for HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral and Revised Recommendations for HIV Screening of Pregnant Women

“…Cohort studies have demonstrated that many infected persons decrease behaviors that transmit infection to sex or needle-sharing partners once they are aware of their positive HIV status (39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46). HIV-infected persons who are unaware of their infection do not reduce risk behaviors (42,(47)(48)(49). Persons tested for HIV who do not return for test results might even increase their risk for transmitting HIV to partners (50 ).…”

The Undetectable Crisis: Changing Technologies of Risk

“…7. Compare NSW Australia, where legal reforms were successful and testing was popular (Kippax et al, 1993) to the United Kingdom, where testing was not taken up by the majority of gay men (Dawson et al, 1991). Flowers argues that though this was the case in the UK, gay men's 'understanding of themselves was [still] profoundly altered as the containment and management of risk and infection was conceptualized at the level of difference between bodies' (2001: 56).…”

Gay Men and HIV/AIDS Risk Management

“…In the UK at least, HIV testing, even after it became available, was not immediately taken up by the majority of gay men (e.g. Dawson et al, 1991). Instead, the somatic notion of risk and its reduction was manifested in the construction of the relationship between generic or universal bodies and their various sexual positionings.…”

Revised Guidelines for HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral and Revised Recommendations for HIV Screening of Pregnant Women

“…Cohort studies have demonstrated that many infected persons decrease behaviors that transmit infection to sex or needle-sharing partners once they are aware of their positive HIV status (39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46). HIV-infected persons who are unaware of their infection do not reduce risk behaviors (42,(47)(48)(49). Persons tested for HIV who do not return for test results might even increase their risk for transmitting HIV to partners (50 ).…”

The Undetectable Crisis: Changing Technologies of Risk

“…7. Compare NSW Australia, where legal reforms were successful and testing was popular (Kippax et al, 1993) to the United Kingdom, where testing was not taken up by the majority of gay men (Dawson et al, 1991). Flowers argues that though this was the case in the UK, gay men's 'understanding of themselves was [still] profoundly altered as the containment and management of risk and infection was conceptualized at the level of difference between bodies' (2001: 56).…”

Gay Men and HIV/AIDS Risk Management

“…In the UK at least, HIV testing, even after it became available, was not immediately taken up by the majority of gay men (e.g. Dawson et al, 1991). Instead, the somatic notion of risk and its reduction was manifested in the construction of the relationship between generic or universal bodies and their various sexual positionings.…”

Revised Guidelines for HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral and Revised Recommendations for HIV Screening of Pregnant Women

“…Cohort studies have demonstrated that many infected persons decrease behaviors that transmit infection to sex or needle-sharing partners once they are aware of their positive HIV status (39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46). HIV-infected persons who are unaware of their infection do not reduce risk behaviors (42,(47)(48)(49). Persons tested for HIV who do not return for test results might even increase their risk for transmitting HIV to partners (50 ).…”