HIV Prevention Issues for Lesbians
- Report: Doctors Don't Know Enough About LGBT Health (March 31, 2011)
From CNN
- Sexual Health, Risk Behaviors and Substance Use in Heterosexual-Identified Women With Female Sex Partners: 2002 U.S. National Survey of Family Growth (September 23, 2010)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Sexual Minorities More Likely to Seek Mental Health Services, Study Finds (August 14, 2009)
Greater levels of discrimination, stress may be factors, researchers say.
From University of California-Los Angeles
- Risk Reduction as an Accepted Framework for Safer-Sex Promotion Among Women Who Have Sex With Women (April 16, 2009)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Primed: The Back Pocket Guide for Transmen & The Men Who Dig Them (PDF) (2009)
From Queertransmen.org
- HIV/AIDS Among Women Who Have Sex With Women (October 17, 2006)
To read PDF, click here.
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- New CDC Reports Highlight HIV Risks for MSM, but Little Info on WSW (August/September 2006)
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
- Sexual Risk Factors Are Found Among Self-Identified Lesbians, Bisexual Women, and Heterosexual Women Accessing Primary Care Settings in U.S. (September 29, 2005)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Prevalence and Risk Factors for Infection With Herpes Simplex Virus Type-1 and -2 Among Lesbians (December 2003)
[Archived Article]
Abstract of a study finding that almost 10% of lesbians are infected with herpes simplex virus type-2.
In Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- HIV Risk Higher for Young Female IDUs Who Have Sex With Women (July 15, 2003)
[Archived Article]
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Lesbian Transmission of HIV: A Rare Case Reported (January 21, 2003)
Researchers suspect "vigorous" use of shared sex toys as the cause.
From aidsmap.com
- Abusive Behaviors and HIV (November/December 2001)
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Do Gay Gals Worry About the Package? Should We? (February 2000)
Survey of lesbian safe-sex behavior.
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
- HIV/AIDS and U.S. Women Who Have Sex with Women (WSW) (August 1999)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Woman-to-Woman: HIV and STDs (June 1999)
A look at the risks.
In WISE Words, from Project Inform
- HIV Risks in Women Who Have Sex With Women (July/August 1997)
In GMHC Treatment Issues, from Gay Men's Health Crisis
- What Are Women Who Have Sex With Women's HIV Prevention Needs? (January 1997)
From Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
- San Diego Lesbians Dispel Myths About HIV (Autumn 1995)
Conference holds safer sex workshop.
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
- Female-to-Female Transmission of HIV (May 1, 1995)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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