Consequently, HIV/AIDS is now being treated more like a chronic illness than a terminal disease. While much focus has been paid to identifying the specific factors that place individuals at risk for acquiring or transmitting HIV, little attention has been directed toward those behaviors that help promote health in the existing population of young people living with HIV (YPLH). These health protective behaviors can assist in prolonging lives. The preliminary data being presented here includes ninety-one participants who have completed their initial visits of a study assessing coping styles as predictors of adherence in urban YPLH. The sample was recruited from two clinics that serve adolescents with perinatal and risk-acquired HIV. The youth range from age 13 -22 years. Specific health protective behaviors were identified that either help promote immune functioning or delay disease progression in YPLH. Study participants responded to questions regarding their diet/nutrition, exercise, sleep habits and taking of multivitamins/supplements. Results highlighted some health protective behavior areas of promise and need. Most respondents reported eating vegetables and fruit "some days" of the week (71.4 % and 76.9 % respectively). In the month prior to baseline, Male injecting drug users (IDU) play a key role in the spread of HIV in mainland China. They face double risk of HIV acquisition through drug using as well as sexual risk behaviors. They also may form a ëbridgeí for transmission of HIV between high risk and low-risk populations such as their non-drug-using female sex partners. Better understanding of the underlying factors of their sexual behaviors is of critical public health importance. The present study examined factors in association with condom use intention among Chinese male IDU, using the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) as a basic conceptual framework. An anonymous crosssectional survey, measuring background characteristics and specific constructs of the motivational phase of HAPA (conditional sexual risk perceptions (acquisition as well as transmission to others), self-efficacy, outcome expectancies, and behavioral intention), was conducted. Data obtained from 243 non-institutionalized Chinese male IDU with an exclusive female regular sex partner (RSP) in mainland China were reported. Of the respondents, the mean age was 35.2 (SD=5.7). Seventy percent received junior high education or less, 51% were currently married, 54.7% injected drugs for 5 years or more, 13.6% had shared syringes or injection paraphernalia with others and 85.6% did not use condoms consistently with RSP in the last 6 months. In line with the HAPA, perceived risk of contracting HIV from RSP (Beta=0.23, p<0.05), condom use negative outcome expectancies (Beta=-0.37, p<0.001), and condom use self efficacy (Beta=0.21, p<0.001) predicted intention to use condoms with RSP. Neither perceived risk of transmitting HIV to RSP or condom use positive outcome expectancies were significant factors. For the first time, support for the use of HAPA to understand condom use behaviors among Chinese male IDU was found. Study findings inform future design of theorybased intervention programs.