Table 3 Background characteristics of the men in the qualitative sample, by recruitment site
HIV treatment clinic | HIV testing clinics | Community | Internet | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Interviewed....... | Face-to-face (n = 20) | Face-to-face (n = 20) | Face-to-face (n = 23) | Online (n = 35) | Face-to-face (n = 30) | |||||
n | n | n | n | n | ||||||
Age (median; range) | 38 | 31–59 | 40 | 25–66 | 35 | 24–51 | 32 | 20–63 | 39 | 21–60 |
Employed | 9 | 18 | 18 | 30 | 23 | |||||
Higher education | 15 | 15 | 17 | 20 | 20 | |||||
Has regular sexual partner | 8 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 12 | |||||
HIV status | ||||||||||
HIV positive | 20 | - | 1 | 6 | 11 | |||||
HIV negative | - | 20 | 18 | 20 | 15 | |||||
Never-tested | - | - | 4 | 9 | 4 | |||||
Seeks sex through the Internet | ||||||||||
Rarely, never or used to | 13 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 0 | |||||
Seeks sex both on and offline | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 14 | |||||
Seeks sex mostly through the Internet | 4 | 2 | 7 | 19 | 16 | |||||