Survey for HIV Infection Rate and Influencing Factors among MSM
2017
Purpose: Understand the HIV infection rate and relevant knowledge, attitude, behavior and access to health services among men who have sex with men (MSM) to provide evidence for HIV/AIDS prevention
and control. Methodology: Questionnaire survey was conducted to understand HIV/AIDS knowledge,
attitude, behavior and access to health services among MSM. Serological testing was performed to look at
HIV, syphilis and HCV infection rates. Epi Data 3.2 was used to create a database and SPSS 17.0 was used
for statistical analysis. Results: A total of 58.50% of subjects identified themselves as homosexuals; 28.20% of
subjects gave correct answers to all HIV/AIDS-related questions; 81.57% of subjects had sex with different
males in the past six months; 25.53% of subjects used condoms at anal sex with males in the past six
months; HIV infection rate was 1.27%; syphilis infection rate was 6.22%; and HCV infection rate was 0.88%. Conclusions: MSM in Shandong Province have strong sense of self-identify, but they have poor knowledge of HIV/
AIDS, many irregular sexual partners and low condom use rate. Moreover, some MSM use drugs at the same time.
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