Multiple Sexual Partnering & HIV Risks among Low Income Heterosexual Black Men

该项目试图了解未充分研究的潜在动力和背景，并因此 经常被误解的性行为的社会和文化决定因素，通常发生在 市中心有多个性伴侣的低收入异性恋黑人男性(目标人群)。这个 该项目的重点是拥有多个伴侣的异性恋男性的性行为，以便更多地 可能会制定可行的艾滋病毒/艾滋病干预方案。异性恋黑人男性中有 艾滋病毒感染率最高；她们往往是感染艾滋病毒的黑人妇女的性伴侣。该项目将 使用性剧本理论来更好地科学地理解亚文化模式 促进与艾滋病毒风险相关的多性性伴侣关系。该项目有以下目标：a(性 社会化)：分析在家庭中和从同龄人那里观察和学习的性规范和剧本 可能导致被边缘化的异性恋黑人男性在成年后有多个性伴侣。B类 (性脚本)：记录药物使用/销售的作用以及与以下各项相关的各种性脚本 黑人异性恋男性之间的多次性伴行为会增加艾滋病毒/艾滋病的风险。C (安全性行为实践)：研究被边缘化的异性恋黑人男性如何理解和 有选择地与多个和主要的性伴侣进行安全的性行为(避孕套)。 该项目将采用综合人种学方法。这将涉及到开展四个焦点小组 每两年(N=96)。民族志学者将根据观察结果撰写田野笔记。 家庭和社区环境中的主题。有多个性伴侣的重点受试者(N=125)将 被招募和深入面试，以及重新面试。将获得广泛的定性数据 关于男人生活的许多方面，重点放在现在的伴侣上，同时 和连续的性伴侣，以及使他们与几个 性伴侣。这将为黑人男性如何表达对艾滋病毒的担忧提供广泛的信息 和性传播感染，以及艾滋病毒检测结果是否影响他们的性行为和对他们的多重披露 性伴侣。大量的定性数据将采用先进的技术来高效地管理 非常庞大的数据集，以便分析和编写几份同行评议出版物。这将导致 在为更安全的性行为制定文化敏感信息方面的改进，通过以下方式 在这一高危人群中，减少了多种伙伴关系做法和艾滋病毒/性传播感染。

The project seeks to understand the underlying dynamics and context of understudied and consequently frequently misunderstood social and cultural determinates of sexual behavior which commonly occurs among inner-city, low income heterosexual black males who have multiple sex partners (the target population). The focus of the project is upon the sexual behavior of heterosexual males who have multiple partners so that more feasible programs for HIV/AIDS intervention may be formulated. Heterosexual black men have among the highest rates of HIV; they are often the sexual partners of black women who acquire HIV. The project will employ the sexual scripts theory to develop a better scientific understanding of the subcultural patterns which promote multiple sexual partnering as related to HIV risk. The project has the following aims: A (Sexual Socialization): To analyze the sexual norms and scripts observed and learned in the family and from peers that may result in multiple sexual partners in adulthood among marginalized heterosexual black males. B (Sexual Scripts): To document the role of drug use/sales and various sexual scripts associated with multiple sexual partnering among black heterosexual males that contribute to HIV/AIDS risk. C (Practices for Safer Sex): To examine how marginalized heterosexual black males understand and selectively practice safer sex (condoms) with multiple and main sexual partners. The project will employ omnibus ethnographic methodology. This will involve conducting four focus groups during each of two years (N=96). Ethnographers will write field notes based on observations of subjects in households and community settings. Focal subjects (N=125) with multiple sex partners will be recruited and interviewed in depth, as well as re-interviewed. Extensive qualitative data will be obtained about many aspects of the men’s lives, with a focus on current mates, concurrent and sequential sex partners as well as the sexual scripts that rationalize their involvement with several sex partners. This will provide extensive information about how black men express concerns about HIV and STIs, and whether HIV test results influence their sexual practices and disclosures to their multiple sexual partners. The extensive qualitative data will employ advanced technologies to efficiently manage very large data sets in order to analyze and write several peer-review publications. This will lead to improvements in developing culturally sensitive messages for safer sex practices, by bringing about reductions in multiple partnering practices and HIV/STI infections among this high risk population.