PMID- 9287561
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19970918
LR  - 20071114
IS  - 0739-9332 (Print)
IS  - 0739-9332 (Linking)
VI  - 18
IP  - 4
DP  - 1997 Jul-Aug
TI  - AIDS-related risk behaviors and safer sex practices of women in midlife and older 
      in the United States: 1990 to 1992.
PG  - 343-54
AB  - Women in midlife and older represent over 25% of all women with AIDS and 4% of 
      all reported AIDS cases in the United States. We present prevalence estimates and 
      demographic correlates of AIDS-related risk behavior and safer sex practices 
      among women in midlife and older from the National AIDS Behavioral Surveys 
      (NABS). Data are of women aged 40 to 75 in the (a) NABS 1 national sample (n = 
      887), (b) NABS 1 urban sample (n = 2,111), and (c) NABS 2 national sample (n = 
      624). Data from the baseline survey (NABS 1) revealed that approximately 8% or 
      4.5 million women aged 40 to 75 engaged in behaviors that might expose them to 
      HIV. Data from the follow-up survey (NABS 2) indicated that the proportion of 
      women who reported a risk factor remained at about 8%. Overall safer sex 
      practices among older women who reported sexual risk behaviors were minimal. 
      Between 90% and 100% had not used condoms in the previous 6 months. Moreover, 
      almost 90% of the women who reported a risk behavior did not perceive themselves 
      to be at risk.
FAU - Binson, D
AU  - Binson D
AD  - Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA. 
      diane_binson@quickmail.ucsf.edu
FAU - Pollack, L
AU  - Pollack L
FAU - Catania, J A
AU  - Catania JA
LA  - eng
GR  - MH/AG-48642/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
GR  - MH43892/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
GR  - MH46240/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
GR  - etc.
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - England
TA  - Health Care Women Int
JT  - Health care for women international
JID - 8411543
MH  - Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/epidemiology/*transmission
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Aged
MH  - Demography
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - *Risk-Taking
MH  - *Sexual Behavior
MH  - Sexual Partners
MH  - United States/epidemiology
EDAT- 1997/07/01 00:00
MHDA- 1997/07/01 00:01
CRDT- 1997/07/01 00:00
PHST- 1997/07/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1997/07/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1997/07/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1080/07399339709516289 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Health Care Women Int. 1997 Jul-Aug;18(4):343-54. doi: 10.1080/07399339709516289.