Journal
AIDS AND BEHAVIOR
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 663-670Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-008-9503-0
Keywords
China; Men who have sex with men; Syphilis; HIV; Sexually transmitted disease (STD); Risk behavior
Funding
- FIC NIH HHS [D43 TW001035, D43 TW001035-10, D43TW001035] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI078933, R01 AI078933-01, R01AI078933, R03 AI067349-02, R03AI067349, R03 AI067349] Funding Source: Medline
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To examine the correlates for syphilis and the prevalence for HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C among men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) in Beijing, China. A total of 541 MSM was recruited using peer-referral, community outreach, and Internet. Questionnaire-based interviews provided information including, demographics, sexual and other risk behaviors. HIV prevalence was 4.8%, syphilis 19.8%, HCV 0.4% and HBsAg 6.5%. The median number of lifetime male sex partners was ten. In the past 3 months, 20.7% drank alcohol a parts per thousand yen1 times per week. In the past month, 21.3 and 14.6% had unprotected anal intercourse with regular and casual male sex partners, respectively. Syphilis infection was associated with less education, alcohol use, finding male sex partners through bathhouses/public washrooms/parks, and diagnoses of sexual transmitted diseases (STDs). Syphilis is now epidemic among Beijing's MSM. Prevention efforts are urgent as HIV prevalence is already near 5%. Education, condom promotion, STD control, and alcohol-related intervention are needed urgently.
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