Partner notification in cooperation with community-based organizations among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in two Chinese cities
The epidemic of HIV/AIDS among Chinese men who have sex with men (MSM) is rapidly escalating. We implemented partner notification among HIV-infected MSM, cooperating with MSM-serving community-based organizations (CBOs) in two Chinese cities from June 2014 to May 2015. CBOs participated in identifyi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5004245/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27140946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956462416648827 |
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author | Fu, Xiaojing Qi, Jinlei Hu, Yifei Pan, Xiaohong Li, Youfang Liu, Hui Wu, Di Yin, Wenyuan Zhao, Yuan Shan, Duo Zhang, Nanci Nanyi Zhang, Dapeng Sun, Jiangping |
author_facet | Fu, Xiaojing Qi, Jinlei Hu, Yifei Pan, Xiaohong Li, Youfang Liu, Hui Wu, Di Yin, Wenyuan Zhao, Yuan Shan, Duo Zhang, Nanci Nanyi Zhang, Dapeng Sun, Jiangping |
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description | The epidemic of HIV/AIDS among Chinese men who have sex with men (MSM) is rapidly escalating. We implemented partner notification among HIV-infected MSM, cooperating with MSM-serving community-based organizations (CBOs) in two Chinese cities from June 2014 to May 2015. CBOs participated in identifying new HIV-positive MSM utilizing rapid HIV tests and partner notification among index cases. 253 index cases were recruited and 275 sexual partners were notified and tested with 10.5% screened positive. Compared with previously identified index cases, the proportion of contactable sexual partners of newly identified index cases was higher, but the testing rate was lower (p < 0.001). Overall, 83.7% of sexual partners were casual with a contactable rate of 24.9% and a HIV testing rate of 71.1%. Having no contact information for sexual partners and fear of disclosure of HIV status are the main reasons for declining partner notification. It is feasible and effective to perform partner notification in cooperation with CBOs serving Chinese MSM. |
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spelling | pubmed-50042452016-09-30 Partner notification in cooperation with community-based organizations among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in two Chinese cities Fu, Xiaojing Qi, Jinlei Hu, Yifei Pan, Xiaohong Li, Youfang Liu, Hui Wu, Di Yin, Wenyuan Zhao, Yuan Shan, Duo Zhang, Nanci Nanyi Zhang, Dapeng Sun, Jiangping Int J STD AIDS Original Research Articles The epidemic of HIV/AIDS among Chinese men who have sex with men (MSM) is rapidly escalating. We implemented partner notification among HIV-infected MSM, cooperating with MSM-serving community-based organizations (CBOs) in two Chinese cities from June 2014 to May 2015. CBOs participated in identifying new HIV-positive MSM utilizing rapid HIV tests and partner notification among index cases. 253 index cases were recruited and 275 sexual partners were notified and tested with 10.5% screened positive. Compared with previously identified index cases, the proportion of contactable sexual partners of newly identified index cases was higher, but the testing rate was lower (p < 0.001). Overall, 83.7% of sexual partners were casual with a contactable rate of 24.9% and a HIV testing rate of 71.1%. Having no contact information for sexual partners and fear of disclosure of HIV status are the main reasons for declining partner notification. It is feasible and effective to perform partner notification in cooperation with CBOs serving Chinese MSM. SAGE Publications 2016-05-01 2016-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5004245/ /pubmed/27140946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956462416648827 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Articles Fu, Xiaojing Qi, Jinlei Hu, Yifei Pan, Xiaohong Li, Youfang Liu, Hui Wu, Di Yin, Wenyuan Zhao, Yuan Shan, Duo Zhang, Nanci Nanyi Zhang, Dapeng Sun, Jiangping Partner notification in cooperation with community-based organizations among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in two Chinese cities |
title | Partner notification in cooperation with community-based organizations among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in two Chinese cities |
title_full | Partner notification in cooperation with community-based organizations among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in two Chinese cities |
title_fullStr | Partner notification in cooperation with community-based organizations among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in two Chinese cities |
title_full_unstemmed | Partner notification in cooperation with community-based organizations among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in two Chinese cities |
title_short | Partner notification in cooperation with community-based organizations among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in two Chinese cities |
title_sort | partner notification in cooperation with community-based organizations among hiv-positive men who have sex with men in two chinese cities |
topic | Original Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5004245/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27140946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956462416648827 |
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