Willingness of homosexual and bisexual men in London to be screened for human immunodeficiency virus.

Abstract

drug. The five patients treated initially with nifedipine relapsed within one week of starting placebo treatment. In three patients the relapse was so severe that the code was broken and the patients began treatment with nifedipine again, with symptomatic response. In the remaining two patients in this group and the five initially treated with placebo new chilblains continued to develop and individual lesions resolved slowly over 20 to 28 days from their onset. Nifedipine reduced the pain, soreness, and irritation of the lesions; placebo was ineffective. Irritation resolved within three to five days (20-25 days with placebo), and lesions became painless after five days (25 days with placebo).Mild dizziness, flushing, and occasional headaches were experienced during treatment with nifedipine, but only one patient required a reduction ofthe dose to 40 mg daily because of symptomatic hypotension. This patient continued to derive benefit from the reduced dose. CommentThis study shows that nifedipine is effective in the treatment of severe recurrent idiopathic permiosis. Further research is needed to understand the pathophysiology of this common condition.

Heterosexual sexual behaviour in a sample of homosexually active men.

“…In order to examine the diversity of sexual behaviour in the sample three groups were distinguished: (1) Vaginal sex-non-regular partner 2(18) 1(9) 2(18) 6 (55) 11 Heterosexual sexual behaviour in a sample ofhomosexually active men exclusively homosexual men N = 309 (2) men who described themselves as bisexual (N = 31) and (3) men who in the last year were "behaviourally bisexual" that is, they had sex with both male and female partners, but did not view themselves as bisexual (N = 16). Aspects of recent and life time sexual history were compared ( (table 3).…”