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Why We Stopped Doing Primary Prevention for Gay Men in 1985

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 10, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 1-21
W. Odets

"Over the past year or two, many have been bemoaning the failure of AIDS primary prevention for gay men. Incidence of new infections is increasing in all segments of the gay communities, and especially among the young and those of color. It now seems apparent that communities of young, gay men will experience levels of infection comparable to those already experienced by older men. While AIDS education has certainly not failed completely, such figures leave no doubt that there have been failures of some sort. An historical and psychological examination of AIDS education in gay communities, however, suggests that these are very often not failures of primary prevention, but failures to accurately conceptualize the nature of primary prevention and deliver it to gay men at all.
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