Of the 719 participants, 100 (16.2%) were aged between 15 and 17 years. Interviews assessed sexual and drug-use behavior as well as psychosocial variables believed to be related to sexual risk-taking, including self-acceptance of gay or bisexual identity, perceptions of peer norms concerning safer sex, and perceptions of the ability to practice safer sex (safer sex self-efficacy). Blood specimens were collected and tested for HIV antibodies, hepatitis B, and syphilis. Design and Methods:Īn interviewer-administered cross-sectional survey of 719 gay and bisexual males between 15 and 22 years old was conducted through a venuebased sampling design. To examine drug-use patterns and correlates of sexual risk behavior in both of these age groups. To compare HIV seroprevalence and sexual risk behavior among very young gay and bisexual men (aged 15-17 years) and their older counterparts (aged 18-22 years).
