News Finding: Using a "Positive Deviance" Framework to Discover Adaptive Risk Reduction Behaviors among High-Risk #HIV Negative Black Men Who Have Sex with Men [a]  HT @username #MSM #BMSM #SexualHealth #Sexuality #SexualBehavior #SRH #GUM #SRHR 
Paper Finding: One of the key messages from this study is that among men at high-risk for HIV who remain HIV negative (i.e., ''positive deviants''), there may be successive decisionmaking across a timeline to a sexual event that reduces risk, even if a condom is not used.
News Context: Using a "Positive Deviance" Framework to Discover Adaptive Risk Reduction Behaviors among High-Risk #HIV Negative Black Men Who Have Sex with Men [a]  HT @username #MSM #BMSM #SexualHealth #Sexuality #SexualBehavior #SRH #GUM #SRHR 
Paper Context: As noted throughout this article, some of these findings are not unique as strategies for avoiding HIV, since there have been many mass media campaigns that promote condom use, HIV testing, and disclosure of HIV status and many of these behaviors are known and commonly used as prevention strategies among MSM; however, in-depth knowledge about who engages in these behaviors, to what extent, in what combinations, and how men otherwise at very high risk for HIV manage to do so, are limited. One of the key messages from this study is that among men at high-risk for HIV who remain HIV negative (i.e., ''positive deviants''), there may be successive decisionmaking across a timeline to a sexual event that reduces risk, even if a condom is not used. In combination, some of these decisions can be viewed adaptive risk reduction behaviors that facilitate avoidance of HIV, and some may have applicability to risk reduction interventions.