Monitoring indicates safe-sex relapse in Boston.
The trend of men who have sex with men (MSM) resorting to increasingly unsafe sexual practices is apparent in the developed world, as studies continue to highlight increases in the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases. Studies presented at the 14th International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, Spain, showed increasing trends of STDs among MSM in New England's largest MSM clinical care site and at Paris STD clinics. Fenway Community Health in Providence, RI has charted STD trends among gay men and lesbians in New England for three decades. The clinic's records showed that the lowest prevalence rate in STDs had occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s, after AIDS deaths had become a strong motivating factor in safe sex practices.
D001900:Boston / Q000453:epidemiology; D018451:Homosexuality, Male; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D021841:Safe Sex; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*