HIV Risk Behaviors Are Common Among Heterosexuals in the U.S.

Abstract

The National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System (NHBS) collects data on HIV prevalence and risk behaviors from three populations — men who have sex with men, injection-drug users, and heterosexuals at increased risk for HIV infection — in selected U.S. metropolitan statistical areas with high AIDS prevalence. Because the initial (2006–2007) NHBS data-collection cycle among heterosexuals suggested that low socioeconomic status (SES) was an accurate marker of HIV acquisition risk in this group, researchers …