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San Francisco AIDS Foundation

BETA Reader Survey Results

Winter 2002/2003

Of the more than 5,000 individual and institutional subscribers to BETA, 340 (7%) responded to the reader survey published in the Spring 2002 issue.
  • 90% were over the age of 35.

  • 27% belonged to an ethnic minority group.

  • 66% were gay/lesbian, 21% were heterosexual, and 13% were bisexual.

  • 34% had an income below $15,000 per year.

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  • 14% had never attended college.

  • 84% were HIV positive -- of these, 70% had been HIV positive for more than ten years and 55% were taking at least their third antiretroviral regimen.

The three most common concerns were drug-related side effects, lipodystrophy, and depression or anxiety. Respondents were most likely to read the Drug Watch and News Briefs columns. Notably, 20% wished to see more articles per issue and 95% did not read BETA online.


Back to the SFAF BETA Winter 2002/2003 contents page.

This article was provided by San Francisco AIDS Foundation. It is a part of the publication Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS.
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