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HIV Risk Perception among HIV Negative or Status-Unknown Men Who Have Sex with Men in China
Objective. To evaluate HIV risk perception and its associated factors among Chinese MSM. Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted among MSM with an HIV negative or unknown status in Beijing, China, between 2011 and 2012. A questionnaire interview was conducted and a blood sample was collected...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3985141/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24795880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/232451 |
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author | Fan, Wensheng Yin, Lu Qian, Han-Zhu Li, Dongliang Shao, Yiming Vermund, Sten H. Ruan, Yuhua Zhang, Zheng |
author_facet | Fan, Wensheng Yin, Lu Qian, Han-Zhu Li, Dongliang Shao, Yiming Vermund, Sten H. Ruan, Yuhua Zhang, Zheng |
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description | Objective. To evaluate HIV risk perception and its associated factors among Chinese MSM. Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted among MSM with an HIV negative or unknown status in Beijing, China, between 2011 and 2012. A questionnaire interview was conducted and a blood sample was collected for HIV and syphilis testing. Results. Of 887 MSM who reported they were HIV negative or did not know their HIV status before recruitment, only 7.3% reported a high risk of HIV infection, 28.0% medium risk, 52.2% low risk, and 12.5% no risk. In multivariate logistic regression models using those who reported a medium self-perceived risk as a reference group, self-reported high risk of HIV perception was associated with minority ethnicity (odds ratio [OR]: 2.91; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.03–8.19), self-reported history of sexually transmitted diseases (OR: 2.27; 95% CI: 1.25–4.10), and HIV testing times since the last HIV testing (OR: 0.47; 95% CI: 0.26–0.84); low self-perceived risk of HIV infection was related to full-time employment (OR: 1.58; 95% CI: 1.15–2.18) and illicit drug use (OR: 0.28; 95% CI: 0.10–0.75). Conclusions. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is rapidly rising among Beijing MSM, but more than half MSM did not perceive this risk. |
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spelling | pubmed-39851412014-05-04 HIV Risk Perception among HIV Negative or Status-Unknown Men Who Have Sex with Men in China Fan, Wensheng Yin, Lu Qian, Han-Zhu Li, Dongliang Shao, Yiming Vermund, Sten H. Ruan, Yuhua Zhang, Zheng Biomed Res Int Research Article Objective. To evaluate HIV risk perception and its associated factors among Chinese MSM. Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted among MSM with an HIV negative or unknown status in Beijing, China, between 2011 and 2012. A questionnaire interview was conducted and a blood sample was collected for HIV and syphilis testing. Results. Of 887 MSM who reported they were HIV negative or did not know their HIV status before recruitment, only 7.3% reported a high risk of HIV infection, 28.0% medium risk, 52.2% low risk, and 12.5% no risk. In multivariate logistic regression models using those who reported a medium self-perceived risk as a reference group, self-reported high risk of HIV perception was associated with minority ethnicity (odds ratio [OR]: 2.91; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.03–8.19), self-reported history of sexually transmitted diseases (OR: 2.27; 95% CI: 1.25–4.10), and HIV testing times since the last HIV testing (OR: 0.47; 95% CI: 0.26–0.84); low self-perceived risk of HIV infection was related to full-time employment (OR: 1.58; 95% CI: 1.15–2.18) and illicit drug use (OR: 0.28; 95% CI: 0.10–0.75). Conclusions. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is rapidly rising among Beijing MSM, but more than half MSM did not perceive this risk. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3985141/ /pubmed/24795880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/232451 Text en Copyright © 2014 Wensheng Fan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Fan, Wensheng Yin, Lu Qian, Han-Zhu Li, Dongliang Shao, Yiming Vermund, Sten H. Ruan, Yuhua Zhang, Zheng HIV Risk Perception among HIV Negative or Status-Unknown Men Who Have Sex with Men in China |
title | HIV Risk Perception among HIV Negative or Status-Unknown Men Who Have Sex with Men in China |
title_full | HIV Risk Perception among HIV Negative or Status-Unknown Men Who Have Sex with Men in China |
title_fullStr | HIV Risk Perception among HIV Negative or Status-Unknown Men Who Have Sex with Men in China |
title_full_unstemmed | HIV Risk Perception among HIV Negative or Status-Unknown Men Who Have Sex with Men in China |
title_short | HIV Risk Perception among HIV Negative or Status-Unknown Men Who Have Sex with Men in China |
title_sort | hiv risk perception among hiv negative or status-unknown men who have sex with men in china |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3985141/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24795880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/232451 |
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