OBJECTIVES: To test the feasibility of obtaining HIV test results by home collection kit from a probability telephone sample of men who have sex with men (MSM). METHODS: A quota sample of 615 MSM previously interviewed by the Urban Men's Health Study phone survey in Chicago, Los Angeles, ...
HIV testsexual behaviourThis paper aims to assess the effects of voluntary anti-HIV testing on homosexual sexual behaviour. A sample of 502 men were recruited from four different areas of England. The criterion for inclusion was 'any man who had sex with another man in the previous 5 years'...
Age, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES) have each been explored with regards to HIV testing. Given the established relationship between body size and other sexual health behaviors (e.g., condom use), exploration of body size as an additional possible determinant of HIV testing is...
Sexual Practices and the Prevalence of HIV and Syphilis among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Lanzhou, China There has been limited investigation of the sexuality and sexual dysfunction in homosexuals by the sexual medicine community. The purpose of this article i... Gao, WL,Li, ZQ,Li, Y,....
An appropriate power analysis focuses on the objective of the proposed study to test hypotheses about circumstances that increase or decrease the likelihood of engaging in specific HIV risk behaviors. Given an alpha level of 0.05, a two-tailed test, and the assumptions of SRS, the analysis would...
The sensitivity of the standard Amplicor HIV-1 PCR kit was only 59%, whereas a modified Amplicor HIV-1 PCR test had a sensitivity of 98%. Our data show that Tanzanian samples prepared by the Amplicor preparation method are more suitable for HIV-1 PCR testing than samples prepared by the ...
hivassay.sav.This is a hypothetical data file that concerns the efforts of a pharmaceutical lab to develop a rapid assay for detecting HIV infection. The results of the assay are eight deepening shades of red, with deeper shades indicating greater likelihood of infection. A laboratory trial was...
Although several statistical and methodological controls have been proposed for minimizing practice effects, they have not been empirically tested in HIV samples. Three groups (HIV+/symptomatic, HIV+/asymptomatic, HIV "at risk" controls) were administered the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) ...
Parents who report being less informed about HIV relative to others were more likely to avoid interactions than more informed parents. Moreover, having at least 1 overnight hospital stay in the past 6 months raised the odds of avoiding interactions for fear of becoming infected. Results from an...
Examples of this include the COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy experienced by minority ethnic and racial groups48, particularly intersecting with health status (for example, HIV infection49 or pregnancy50) and in prior cases such as polio vaccination internationally51, which unevenly distributed the ...