1. Trends in Belief That HIV Treatment Prevents Transmission Among Gay and Bisexual Men in Australia: Results of National Online Surveys 2013–2019.
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Holt, Martin, MacGibbon, James, Bear, Brandon, Lea, Toby, Kolstee, Johann, Crawford, David, Murphy, Dean, Power, Cherie, Ellard, Jeanne, and de Wit, John
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HIV prevention , *PREVENTION of infectious disease transmission , *GAY people , *HEALTH attitudes , *HEALTH education , *HEALTH promotion , *HIV infections , *HIV-positive persons , *PREVENTIVE medicine , *SURVEYS , *ANTIRETROVIRAL agents , *MULTIPLE regression analysis , *EDUCATIONAL attainment , *CROSS-sectional method - Abstract
We have tracked belief in the effectiveness of HIV treatment as prevention (TasP) among Australian gay and bisexual men (GBM) since 2013. National, online cross-sectional surveys of GBM were conducted every 2 years during 2013–2019. Trends and associations were analyzed using multivariate logistic regression. Data from 4,903 survey responses were included. Belief that HIV treatment prevents transmission increased from 2.6% in 2013 to 34.6% in 2019. Belief in the effectiveness of TasP was consistently higher among HIV-positive participants than other participants. In 2019, higher levels of belief in TasP were independently associated with university education, being HIV-positive, using pre-exposure prophylaxis, knowing more HIV-positive people, being recently diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) and use of post-exposure prophylaxis. Belief that HIV treatment prevents transmission has increased substantially among Australian GBM, but remains concentrated among HIV-positive GBM, those who know HIV-positive people, and GBM who use antiretroviral-based prevention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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