Risk compensation: the Achilles' heel of innovations in HIV prevention?

BMJ. 2006 Mar 11;332(7541):605-7. doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7541.605.

Abstract

The benefits of new methods of prevention of HIV could be jeopardised if they are not accompanied by efforts to change risky behaviour

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Diffusion of Innovation
  • HIV Infections / prevention & control*
  • HIV Infections / psychology
  • Humans
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk-Taking*
  • Unsafe Sex / prevention & control
  • Unsafe Sex / psychology