TI   "HIV Transmission: Women's Risk from Bisexual Men"
 AU   Wood, Robert W. et al.
 SO   American Journal of Public Health (12/93) Vol. 83, No. 12, P. 1757
 AB   A recent analysis of AIDS surveillance data by the AIDS   Prevention
      Project of the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health in
      Washington state found that men identifying themselves as bisexuals
      and men identifying themselves homosexuals differed in several ways. 
      The study, which involved 5480 men who reported having sex with
      another man since 1977, found that self-reported sexual identity was
      an important indicator of sexual encounters with women and HIV
      positive status.  Of the sample, 77 percent said they were gay and
      reported almost no sex with females in the past year.  Thirteen
      percent said they were bisexual, and 8.4 percent identified
      themselves as straight.  Self-described gays had the highest rate of
      HIV seroprevalence.  Straight-identified men reported the highest
      number of female partners and were less likely to be infected,
      although the seroprevalence was still disturbingly high.  Men calling
      themselves bisexuals, however, posed the most risk of HIV infection
      to women, while gays and straights exposed equal numbers of women. 
      Bisexual men and straight men were also more likely to inject drugs,
      a contributing element to the AIDS epidemic.  The study suggests that
      increased attention should focus on men who have sex with men and use
      intravenous drugs.

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