Table 2. Comparison of urban and rural GP responses 2023.
| Questions | Urban Yes (%) n = 43 |
Rural Yes (%) n = 31 |
OR | CI | P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Are any patients in your practice living with HIV? | 86.0% | 74.2% | 2.14 | 0.65 to 6.97 | 0.205 |
| Have you ever tested a patient for HIV in your practice? | 99.9% | 96.8% | 4.28 | 0.16 to 108.59 | 0.881 |
| Have you sent a test based on a patient request? | 86.0% | 51.6% | 5.78 | 1.89 to 17.60 | 0.002* |
| Have you sent a test based on symptoms of HIV? | 46.5% | 12.9% | 5.65 | 1.68 to 18.97 | 0.005* |
| Have you sent a test as indicated by sexual history? | 90.7% | 71.0% | 3.99 | 1.09 to 14.46 | 0.035* |
| Have you sent a test based on origin from a country of high incidence? | 62.8% | 12.9% | 11.39 | 3.36 to 38.52 | <0.001* |
| Do you use any guidelines in testing for or managing HIV? | 34.9% | 6.5% | 7.77 | 1.62 to 37.11 | 0.01* |
| Are you aware of PrEP and its uses? | 88.4% | 71.0% | 5.18 | 1.26 to 21.18 | 0.022* |
| Are you familiar with the concept of ‘undetectable = untransmittable’ (U=U)? | 79.1% | 48.4% | 3.63 | 1.33 to 9.82 | 0.011* |
HIV = human immunodeficiency virus
Bold and asterisk(*) indicates statistical significance.