20 Percent of Youth With HIV Didn’t Know They Were Infected at First Sexual Experience

NIH-funded study underscores need for physician counseling on healthy practices

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–November 9, 2012.  Roughly 20 percent of youth who have had HIV since birth did not know their HIV status when they first became sexually active, according to a study by a National Institutes of Health-supported research network.

The study also found that, of those youth who knew they had HIV and who were asked about disclosure of their HIV status to their first…