Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #103815

Richard Crosby, PhD, MA, Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, College of Public Health at the University of Kentucky, 121 Washington Ave., Lexington, KY 40506-0003, 859-257-5678, crosby@uky.edu and David R. Holtgrave, PhD, Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, 1518 Clifton Raod, NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, Algeria.

Objectives: Three objectives were: 1) assess the likelihood that people would increase HIV risk behavior after receiving an AIDS vaccine; 2) determine the association of increases with vaccination intent; and 3) identify differences between people who would and would not increase their HIV risk behavior after vaccination. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted of 278 adults from three populations: Gay men, African-American women, and persons who used illicit drugs. Results: Nearly one-quarter of the sample indicated a likelihood that their HIV risk behavior would increase after vaccination. This increase was positively associated (r=.24) with increased intent to be vaccinated. Previous worry about having HIV, being 32 years of age or older, and having less than a high school education were each associated with a post-vaccination increase in HIV risk. Conclusion: Intervention studies are necessary to identify strategies that minimize escalation of HIV-risk behavior after being vaccinated against AIDS.

Learning Objectives:

• Audience members will be able to identify potential reasons why people may escalate their sexual risk taking after being vaccinated for AIDS.
• Audience members will be able to articulate potential intervention strategies that coud avert any increase in sexual risk taking after being vaccinated for AIDS.

Keywords: Sexual Risk Behavior, HIV/AIDS

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.