Actual and undiagnosed HIV prevalence in a community sample of men who have sex with men in Auckland, New Zealand

Saxton, Peter JW; Dickson, Nigel P; Griffiths, Richard; Hughes, Anthony J; Rowden, John

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-92

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Proportion of survey respondents who provided oral fluid specimens by recruitment site, demographic characteristics, sexual and other HIV risk and health seeking behaviour

From: Actual and undiagnosed HIV prevalence in a community sample of men who have sex with men in Auckland, New Zealand

	Number eligible	Specimen provided		p-value
		n	%
Recruitment site				0.006
Fair day	994	818	82.3
Gay bars	123	88	71.5
Sex-on-site venues	187	143	76.5
Demographic characteristics
Age				0.52
16-29	454	367	80.8
30-44	450	363	80.7
45+	364	304	83.5
Ethnicity				0.93
European	922	750	81.3
Maori	136	111	81.6
Pacific	37	29	78.4
Asian	130	107	82.3
Other	48	37	77.1
Highest education				0.23
Less than tertiary degree	659	544	82.6
Tertiary degree or higher	602	481	79.9
Sexual identity				0.61
Gay	1122	908	80.9
Bisexual	135	105	77.8
Other	40	31	77.5
Residence				0.43
Auckland	1023	834	81.5
Other New Zealand	150	125	83.3
Overseas	95	73	76.8
Sexual and HIV risk behaviour
Sex with women < 6 months				0.16
No	1196	969	81.0
Yes	101	76	75.3
Number of male partners in previous 6 months				0.007
0	68	57	83.8
1	401	307	76.6
2-5	438	371	84.7
6-20	232	192	82.8
> 20	116	85	73.3
Sex with casual partners in previous 6 months				0.007
No casual partners	436	333	76.4
Casual partners - no anal sex	189	158	83.6
Casual partners - anal sex all protected	367	292	79.6
Casual partners - anal sex not all protected	246	213	86.6
Sex with current regular partner in previous 6 months				0.21
No current regular partner	542	445	82.1
Regular partner - no anal sex	109	83	76.2
Regular partner - anal sex all protected	193	148	76.7
Regular partner - anal sex not all protected	391	325	83.1
Injecting drug use				0.47
Never injected	1167	950	81.4
Injected at least once in lifetime	90	76	84.4
Health seeking behaviour
Sexual health check up in previous 12 months				0.86
No	618	504	81.6
Yes	658	534	81.2
STI in previous 12 months			0.05
No	1150	930	80.9
Yes	105	93	88.6
HIV testing history			0.17
Last tested HIV negative	937	755	80.6
Tested HIV positive	74	55	74.3
Never tested	249	209	83.9
Total	1304	1049	80.4

Table omits data on respondents with missing information

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