Safe-Sex Knowledge, Sexual Behavior, and Drug Use A thesis

Table 5. Behaviors by HIV status
HIV negative
(n=151)
HIV positive
(n=33)
Gay men .73 (.44) .73 (.45)
Bisexual men .18 (.39) 0.0 (0.0)
Straight men .01 (.16) .09 (.29)
Females .02 (.14) .03 (.17)
Transgender .03 (.16) .12 (.33)
White .74 (.44) .73 (.45)
Black .08 (.27) .19 (.40)
Other .11 (.31) .04 (.20)
Multiracial .07 (.26) .04 (.20)
Hispanic .39 (.49) .30 (.46)
Age 30 (10.9) 40 (8.3)
Income 26,893 (22,023) 19,322 (17,358)
Less than high .08 (.26) .15 (.36)
school
High school degree .29 (.45) .21 (.42)
Some College .47 (.50) .57 (.51)
BA or more .16 (.37) .16 (.37)
Drug Use and Social Networks
(Gay Men Who Use Methamphetamine and/or use the Internet and Social
Networks to find their Partners)
Table 6 presents sex related behaviors for the full sample. On average, 45 percent
of the sample has a primary partner. Of those who have a primary partner, 11 percent
have an HIV positive primary partner. Of the respondents themselves, 18 percent are
HIV positive. Approximately 6 % of the sample has never had an HIV test, and over half
have taken an HIV test either in the last month or within the last six months. On average,
the respondents have had 6.3 sex partners in the last six months, and number of partners
range from 0 to 100. For those that have had at least 1 sex partner in the last six months,
91 percent of respondents have had male sex partners, 72 percent have had openly gay
sex partners, and 54 percent discussed HIV or STDs with a sex partner. The majority of
the sample has gotten drunk in the last six months (72 %) but only a quarter of them have
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