Impact of immediate initiation of antiretroviral therapy among men who have sex with men infected with HIV in Chengdu, southwest China: trends analysis, 2008–2018

Table 1 HIV sentinel seroprevalence, newly reported HIV cases and ART coverage rate among MSM in Chengdu between 2008 and 2018

	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
HIV sentinel seroprevalence (%) ^a	11.20	13.33	14.15	15.50	13.90	17.67	13.83	12.90	7.90	8.78	5.17
Newly reported HIV cases ^b	168	340	367	528	639	824	1061	1232	1124	1021	1014
ART coverage rate (%) ^c	11.11	14.56	25.71	40.24	47.16	57.51	65.57	78.40	85.21	90.21	92.29

^a calculated with number of sampled MSM in the annual sentinel survey conducted in Chengdu as denominator and confirmed HIV cases from those MSM as numerator
^b newly confirmed HIV cases in CRIMS whose route of infection was male homosexual transmission and address was Chengdu city
^c calculated with number of alive MSM HIV cases registered in CRIMS whose address was Chengdu city as denominator and linked cases receiving ART as numerator

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