HIV-negative and HIV-positive gay men's attitudes to medicines, HIV treatments and antiretroviral-based prevention.

Martin Holt, Dean Murphy, Denton Callander, Jeanne Ellard, Marsha Rosengarten, Susan Kippax, John de Wit

National Centre in HIV Social Research, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. m.holt@unsw.edu.au

AIDS and behavior 2013 Jul

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We assessed attitudes to medicines, HIV treatments and antiretroviral-based prevention in a national, online survey of 1,041 Australian gay men (88.3% HIV-negative and 11.7% HIV-positive). Multivariate analysis of variance was used to identify the effect of HIV status on attitudes. HIV-negative men disagreed with the idea that HIV drugs should be restricted to HIV-positive people. HIV-positive men agreed and HIV-negative men disagreed that taking HIV treatments was straightforward and HIV-negative men were more sceptical about whether HIV treatment or an undetectable viral load prevented HIV transmission. HIV-negative and HIV-positive men had similar attitudes to pre-exposure prophylaxis but divergent views about 'treatment as prevention'.

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Martin Holt, Dean Murphy, Denton Callander, Jeanne Ellard, Marsha Rosengarten, Susan Kippax, John de Wit. HIV-negative and HIV-positive gay men's attitudes to medicines, HIV treatments and antiretroviral-based prevention. AIDS and behavior. 2013 Jul;17(6):2156-61