Are Advances in Treatment Changing Views about High-Risk Sex?

To the Editor: Recent advances in the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease 1 have raised considerable hope for people living with HIV, as well as for those at risk of infection.2 These advances also pose potential new public health problems, because they may influence risky sexual behavior. We recruited 54 men who have sex with men (average age, 32 years; 72 percent were white, 7 percent Asian, 6 percent biracial, 4 percent black, 4 percent Latino, and 7 percent from other races or ethnic groups) to participate in an intervention counseling study. Basing our study on earlier work that . . .