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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 94, Issue 7, Pages 1141-1146Publisher
AMER PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOC INC
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.94.7.1141
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- NCI NIH HHS [U01 CA066535] Funding Source: Medline
- NCRR NIH HHS [M01-RR00079, M01-RR00083, M01 RR000083, M01 RR000079] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [U01 AI034993, U01 AI034989, U01-AI-34993, U01-AI-34989, U01 AI035004, U01-AI-31834, U01 AI031834, U01 AI042590, U01-AI-34994, U01-AI-35004, U01 AI034994, U01-AI-42590] Funding Source: Medline
- NICHD NIH HHS [U01-HD-32632, U01 HD032632] Funding Source: Medline
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Objectives. We assessed the association between initiation of highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) regimens and sexual risk behaviors among HIV-infected women. Methods. We analyzed data from 724 women who initiated HAART between January 1996 and January 2001 and who had pre-HAART viral loads at or above 400 copies per milliliter. Results. Sexually active women were less likely (odds ratio [OR]= 0.79) to report 2 or more partners during a 6-month period after HAART initiation than before HAART initiation. However, the risk for unprotected sex was higher after HAART initiation than before HAART initiation among all sexually active women (both those who reported 2 or more partners [OR= 1.84] and those who reported 1 partner [OR= 1.22]). Conclusions. Sexual risk behaviors are associated with receipt of therapy but not with therapeutic response, indicating a risk for transmission among female HAART recipients.
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