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June 2009, Vol 99, No. 6 | American Journal of Public Health 981-984
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.149625

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Are HIV/AIDS Prevention Interventions for Heterosexually Active Men in the United States Gender-Specific?

Shari L. Dworkin, PhD, MS, Robert E. Fullilove, EdD and Dean Peacock, MA

Shari L. Dworkin is with the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, and the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco. Robert E. Fullilove is with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Dean Peacock is with Sonke Gender Justice, Cape Town, South Africa.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Shari L. Dworkin, PhD, MS, UCSF Social and Behavioral Sciences Department, 3333 California Street, Suite 455, Box 0612, San Francisco, CA 94118 (e-mail: Regina.Gudelunas{at}ucsf.edu).

Although gender-specific theories are often deployed in interventions to reduce women's HIV risks, the same is often not true for interventions among men. Theories of masculinity are not guiding most US research on the risky sexual behavior of heterosexual men or on what can be done to intervene.

We first assess the extent to which evidence-based HIV-prevention interventions among heterosexually active men in the United States draw upon relevant theories of masculinity. Next, we introduce a useful framework within masculinity and gender studies that can be applied to HIV-prevention interventions with heterosexually active men.

Finally, we make suggestions to improve the gender specificity of HIV-prevention interventions for heterosexually active men in the United States.






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