Research Paper Presents Serosorting As More Dangerous

Published: July 23, 2007, 1:53 pm

Tags: academia, public policy, health care, mathematics, science, aids, hiv

As Gabriel Rotello and Andrew Sullivan debate whether "AIDS is over" in an ongoing online hissy fit of battling blog posts, Mad Professah came across the results of a study which bolsters Rotello's argument that "sero-sorting" (the practice of sorting your sexual partners by HIV status and then having unprotected sex with people of the same status) is actually more dangerous than not. An article in the May 31, 2007 edition AIDS by D.M. Butler entitled "Serosorting can potentially increase HIV transmissions" used a mathematical model to numerically estimate the risks of HIV transmission due to serosorting between men of differing HIV statuses having unprotected sex.The model for HIV-negative' individuals took into account the transmission risks involved at different stages of HIV infection. Unsurprisingly, the investigators calculated that the transmission risk per 10,000 for individuals who were actually HIV-negative was zero. For individuals who believed themselves to be

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