1 issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, underscore the need for HIV prevention programs to factor in the role of substance abuse, the investigators say. The team's findings, published in the Aug. While previous research has linked risky sexual behaviors to drug use in MSM, the new study is the first multi-city analysis to also include teenagers, a group made especially vulnerable by lack of experience, the investigators say. More than half, 34, said they have had unprotected sex. The researchers said that nearly one-third (20) of the 64 participants who reported recent meth use also reported sex with an HIV-infected person, while half reported sex with an injection drug user. A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center and elsewhere shows that methamphetamine use can fuel HIV infection risk among teenage boys and young men who have sex with men (MSM), a group that includes openly gay and bisexual men, as well as those who have sex with men but do not identify themselves as gay or bisexual.
