title: Sex, drugs and HIV: an ethnographic approach.
abstract: This is an ethnographic study of the sexual relationship that exists between a group of heroin addicted prostitutes and a Latino/Hispanic group of migrant undocumented workers from Mexico in Orange County, California. Some of the sexual practices elicited and observed by the ethnographer have implications for the transmission and prevention of the HIV. Of particular interest is a form of sexual behavior which is known to the participants as 'becoming milk brothers'. In this sexual practice several men have sexual intercourse with a single woman in rapid succession, allowing the possibility of HIV transmission to take place from male to female, from female to male, and from male to male.
authors.affiliation: AltaMed Health Services Corp., Los Angeles, CA 90022.
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Magaña
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D003932:Heroin; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico / Q000208:ethnology; D011477:Sex Work / Q000208:ethnology*; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000208:ethnology; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000208:ethnology*; D014171:Transients and Migrants
chemical_list: D003932:Heroin