News Finding: But it is to useful to illuminate strategies HIV-negative men employ for staying negative, and perhaps longitudinal studies of cohorts of black gay and bisexual men are important to understand changes in sexual practices over a lifetime, as well as whether changes in their risk reduction strategies occur as they age, as they enter long-term relationships, or as new biomedical prevention models become available.
Paper Finding: When selecting sex partners, men said they tend to actively avoid men they perceive to be HIV positive, inject drugs, or those who appear to be very feminine or flamboyant.
News Context: Last, it is important to remember not to use research on men who are HIV negative to stigmatize or stereotype people living with HIV. But it is to useful to illuminate strategies HIV-negative men employ for staying negative, and perhaps longitudinal studies of cohorts of black gay and bisexual men are important to understand changes in sexual practices over a lifetime, as well as whether changes in their risk reduction strategies occur as they age, as they enter long-term relationships, or as new biomedical prevention models become available. It is evident that while engagement of black gay and bisexual men living with HIV is pertinent to winning the fight against the epidemic, especially in light of the undetectable equals untransmittable (U=U) movement, it is also important to engage HIV-negative men in tangible ways to ensure that they stay negative.
Paper Context: This theorized process of incrementally minimizing risk through successive adaptive decisions, continues in the ''selecting sex partners'' period. When selecting sex partners, men said they tend to actively avoid men they perceive to be HIV positive, inject drugs, or those who appear to be very feminine or flamboyant. These are examples of the persistence of stigma in personal preferences, but nevertheless are important to understand in the context of men's beliefs about how they are avoiding HIV.