FRIDAY, Feb. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Many blithesome men who regularly have risky sex would have ~ing willing to ask partners to conversion to an act a new, rapid-result HIV standard, a new study shows.

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The tests, which use a mouth swab and discover HIV antibodies in less than 20 minutes, are popularly used in testing clinics across the United States. The U.S. Food and physic Administration approval of the tests in favor of public use is pending, according to the researchers at the HIV Center at Columbia Psychiatry and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

The researchers interviewed 57 dashing and bisexual men, aged 18 and older, who afore~ they had multiple male partners and seldom or never used condoms. Most of the men uttered they liked the idea of using the touchstone kits to screen sexual partners.

The researchers also found that most of the men afore~ they would likely ask partners to take some HIV test and might consider unharmed sex measures if the partner's response raised doubts about his HIV condition.

The study was slated for online open declaration in February in the Journal of Sex Research.

The tests finish not detect the initial, acute ~-wagon of HIV infection that lasts in favor of a few weeks, but "for men who are already having a high level of defenceless intercourse with multiple partners, access to a speedy HIV test that can be performed at home may justify to be a valuable harm-abatement tool," principal investigator Alex Carballo-Dieguez, a clinical psychologist, before-mentioned in a Columbia news release.

The researchers famed that an HIV home test could furthermore protect heterosexual people who have risky sex.

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