The Context of HIV Risk Among Drug Users and Their Sexual Partners

3. Prevention Point, the large needle exchange program that began its
exchanges in the Tenderloin, was not operating at the time, so there
was no sudden availability of syringes.
4. Shortly before and during the second survey there was an ongoing
debate in the gay community, particularly in the gay press, about the
safety of oral sex. Many believed that HIV could not be transmitted
via oral sex, and this may have had some impact on call men’s
attitudes and behaviors about condom use and oral sex.
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