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TRUCKERS' HEALTH * USA - HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Long-Distance Truck Drivers
The article examines how the work and health care conditions of the two million long-distance truck drivers in the U.S. have increased their risk for HIV/AIDS
Washington,DC,USA -Kaiser network.org/Leydorf, POZ -7 March 2008: -- ... One survey conducted among the population showed one-third of the 71 men interviewed reported that they frequently had multiple sex partners, usually commercial sex workers. The survey also found that sex, alcohol and drugs were reported as widely used as "quick, effective stress relievers during downtime on long, lonely trips" and that truckers believed they were at low-risk of HIV, despite their high-risk lifestyles. Tim Anderson, project coordinator for the Trucker Health Project, said some researchers have been working for five years to educate drivers about safer sex and self empowerment. He said that political pressure has derailed research on the subject, adding, "People think HIV and truckers is a problem overseas, not here"... Anderson also noted that it is common for married truckers to have sex with other men while on the road. In addition, there are "truck chasers," men who pursue drivers for sex. Anderson said he hopes to open clinics nationwide to help provide HIV/AIDS care and prevention for truck drivers...
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