Men who are suffering from HIV were diagnosed by a team of doctors and the research says that they are opting to have unprotected sex with their partners who are also suffering from the disease. According to various studies, this is a dramatic shift in the behavior as well as thinking of those men who are suffering from with HIV.

According to various studies, the fact comes out to be that these men prior to the disease have had several unprotected intercourse with those partners who were HIV-negative or HIV-unknown partners.  It has been known that they had these acts almost 75 percent of the time.

But after suffering from HIV, a variety of change has been seen in their behavior. According to the researchers, after having diagnosed, the men who were suffering from HIV have had sex almost 97% with those partners who were also suffering from HIV.

This is vital as the first month after infection is when someone has the most number of HIV circulating in their blood. The research included a lot of interviews on newly HIV-infected men as well as about their behaviors. It was found that almost 90 percent of the men in the study were gay.

One more fact came out of the whole research. It was known that the use of condom was up and the number of partners involved in the act was down.

The was the most startling effect that was seen in men who were suffering from HIV that they are  choosing to have unprotected sex almost exclusively with other individuals who are also suffering from HIV.

“This reflects a systematic shift by men, most of whom are gay, following HIV infection to behaviors that protect their sex partners,” says lead study author, Wayne Steward, PhD, MPH, who is an assistant professor of medicine at UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.