TOPIC: Prevention & Education
OTHER KEYWORDS: Vietnamese, Orange County, CA
TITLE: Vietnamese American sexual behaviors and HIV infection
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Carrier J, Nguyen B, Su S. Vietnamese American sexual behaviors and HIV infection. J of Sex Res.1992; 29 (4): 547-560.
SUMMARY
This paper presents some preliminary findings of an ongoing ethno-sexual field study of Vietnamese American sexual behaviors in Orange County, California, and indicates how they may be related to HIV infection. The primary objective of the study is to gather data on those sexual behaviors having the highest likelihood of transmitting the AIDS virus. The field research data indicates that a potential exists for the spread of HIV into the heterosexual populations though the sexual activity of Vietnamese men with non-Vietnamese female prostitutes in California and Mexico, and through the sexual activity of Vietnamese men with Thai and Vietnamese prostitutes in Thailand and Vietnam while on return visits to Southeast Asia.