There is clearly a potentially limitless range of issues related to ethnic diversity. This essay will attempt to provide a framework by which the relevance of ethnic diversity to Aids can be determined rather than provide an exhaustive list of issues and how they relate to Aids and sexually active men. Not all ethnic diversity will be relevant to Aids but they may be appropriate to other areas of health promotion. "Sex, Gay men and AIDS" is an important book which brings together the project of SIGMA, this study collected detailed information on sexual behaviour from over 1000 gay and bisexua

A central preoccupation of studies in ethnicity and Aids in the USA is the extent to which Black bisexual men prose a threat to their female partners, as the following quote illustrates,

It is only recently that published research exist into ethnic differences among homosexual active men in Britain. In "Sex, Gay men and AIDS" there is a rich resource in this topic. It provides a solid background for developing further research on sexual behaviour as well as ideas for developing HIV prevention. Most importantly it provides much needed data on sexual lives of gay men and their behavioural responses to HIV epidemic. Although most of the references in this essay is related to the USA, we can to a certain extent relate the information to Britain. Aids and HIV has always been a controversial and delicate issue that has existed in our society for generations. Given a phillip by the work of Beck and Giddens, researchers in the field of HIV and AIDS in particular have tried to look critically at the epidemiological use of the term, while medical Sociologists with a wide range of interest have found risk useful as an organising concept (Medicine, Health and Risk: Sociological Approaches). In relation to world health, with the analysis of homosexuals in Britain and the USA, this can help us to have a greater understanding of the diversity of sexual activities within ethnic groups and their surroundings.

"The fact that a trivial minority of our sample engaged in unprotected vaginal intercourse supports the news that bisexual activity may be an important

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