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High-Risk Sexual Behavior in Los Angeles: Who Receives Testing for HIV?

 

作者: Loren Miller,   Paul Simon,   Mark Miller,   Anna Long,   Emily Yu,   Steven Asch,  

 

期刊: JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes  (OVID Available online 1999)
卷期: Volume 22, issue 5  

页码: 490-490

 

ISSN:1525-4135

 

年代: 1999

 

出版商: OVID

 

关键词: HIV testing;High-risk sexual behavior

 

数据来源: OVID

 

摘要:

SummaryNo recent population-based data on HIV testing in people with high-risk sexual behavior are available. We sought predictors of testing using data from the 1997 Los Angeles County Health Survey, a random-digit telephone survey of 8004 county households. An estimated 2.3 million (35.5%) adults were tested for HIV in the past 2 years and approximately 370,000 (5.6%) engaged in high-risk sexual behavior (defined as having ≥2 partners in the past 12 months and not always using condoms). Among high-risk persons, an estimated 46% of heterosexual men, 56% of heterosexual women, and 72% of men who had sex with men (MSM) were tested for HIV. In a multivariable model of high-risk people, both heterosexual men (odds ratio [OR], 0.31; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.16–0.61) and women (OR, 0.41; 95% CI, 0.19–0.87) had significantly lower proportions of testing than MSM. Although African Americans and Hispanics had significantly higher testing proportions than whites overall among all county residents, those reporting high-risk sexual behavior did not test at higher proportions. We conclude that the proportion of adults with high-risk sexual behavior tested for HIV is higher than almost a decade ago. However, testing among this group remains suboptimal. Future public health campaigns should intensify efforts to encourage HIV testing among this population.

 



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