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Thirty Years of Research on Gay Men and HIV Prevention in France: A Narrative Review of the Literature

Overview of attention for article published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, February 2018
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Title
Thirty Years of Research on Gay Men and HIV Prevention in France: A Narrative Review of the Literature
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Archives of Sexual Behavior, February 2018
DOI 10.1007/s10508-018-1163-1
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Gabriel Girard, Véronique Doré

Abstract

Research on homosexuality and HIV/AIDS in the social sciences has evolved into a vast and multiform field of study since the beginning of the epidemic in the Global North. Studies from France in this domain have remained relatively unknown at the international level. This article offers a narrative review of publications that resulted from research on homosexuality and HIV/AIDS, from 1985 to 2016. It offers an analysis of how the constitution of a field of research conditions the ways scientific questions are asked (and answered). This epistemological concern is addressed through a sociohistorical contextualization of the main issues surrounding prevention and how they have been addressed by researchers in France. A review of French publications on HIV prevention among gay men reveals certain specificities. In terms of the social science disciplines, psychology and psychoanalysis are much less present in this domain, whereas epidemiology, sociology, and anthropology are the most represented. The works analyzed in this article also reveal the circulation and local adaptations of risk categories imported from the English-speaking world, such as "relapse" and "bareback." Regardless, research on HIV prevention in France largely evolved contemporaneously in the same way that it did elsewhere.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 19 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 26%
Student > Bachelor 4 21%
Student > Master 3 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 11%
Student > Postgraduate 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 5 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 21%
Social Sciences 4 21%
Psychology 1 5%
Unknown 5 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 March 2018.
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#2,490,110
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Outputs from Archives of Sexual Behavior
#1,094
of 3,482 outputs
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#61,133
of 437,836 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Archives of Sexual Behavior
#24
of 59 outputs
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