CDC Project 90 study of high-risk heterosexual networks announced by John Potterat (1988)
Channel: John Potterat
Date: 2016-04-02

John Potterat interviewed by Newscenter 11 (KKTV , Colorado Springs, 1988). Potterat announces CDC Project 90, a 5-year, $600,000 study of HIV transmission among high-risk heterosexuals in Colorado Springs. It is hypothesized that social network groupings constrain the flow of HIV, so the study aims to capture network linkages, tracing disease flow and describing how high-risk networks connect to the larger population. Despite methodical and exhaustive investigation uncovering plentiful opportunities for HIV to be transmitted via unprotected oral and penile-vaginal routes (among nearly 600 study subjects and their estimated 8,000 personal contacts over a 5-year period), not a single such transmission is documented.