Review: Sexual Behavior and AIDS

HIV/AIDS knowledge and sexual behavior among high school students.

Data from the 1989 Secondary School Student Health Risk Survey indicate that 54 percent of all high school students in the United States had had some form of HIV/AIDS education in school. Responses to a questionnaire on HIV/AIDS knowledge show that nearly all students knew the two main modes of HIV transmission--intravenous drug use and sexual intercourse. Students who had been taught about HIV...

HIV testing, HIV/AIDS Knowledge, and Sexual Behavior

This study utilizes a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to explore two important issues regarding HIV/AIDS knowledge and HIV testing: 1) how to promote HIV/AIDS knowledge and demand for HIV testing and 2) what are the causal effects of HIV/AIDS knowledge and HIV testing on sexual behavior. In this paper, we try to understand these questions directly through two rounds of experiments. During the...

HIV/AIDS-related Expectations and Risky Sexual Behavior in Malawi

Subjective expectations are likely to be an important determinant of health-related behaviors in a high-HIVprevalence environment. We use probabilistic expectations data elicited from survey respondents in rural Malawi to investigate how risky sexual behavior may be influenced by individuals’ survival expectations, which in turn depend on the perceived impact of HIV/AIDS on survival; expectatio...

Conditioning and sexual behavior: a review.

Sexual behavior is directed by a sophisticated interplay between steroid hormone actions in the brain that give rise to sexual arousability and experience with sexual reward that gives rise to expectations of competent sexual activity, sexual desire, arousal, and performance. Sexual experience allows animals to form instrumental associations between internal or external stimuli and behaviors th...

AIDS Stigma and Sexual Prejudice