Abstract

The report "Associations with High-Risk Sexual Behavior " in this issue by Steiner and his col-leagues! raises many issues that invite further discussion and exploration. Certainly, with the rise in rates of persons positive for human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) infection, research on un-derstanding primary prevention of this disease is timely and relevant. Early attempts at research into the behavioral correlates of population groups with dispropor-tionately high HIV positivity rates initially fo-cused on the information base of the population. Since then, several well-documented studies have reported that information by itself is not suffi-cient to prompt behavioral change that protects against HIV exposure.2,3