TABLE 2.
—Percentage of Patients Tested for HIV, by Sexually Transmitted Disease Diagnosis During the Visit, at 28 Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Clinics in 14 US Cities, 1997
Voluntarily Tested | Not Tested | |||||
Diagnosis | No. | % | % HIV+ | % | % HIV+ | % HIV+ (Excluding Patients Reported as +) |
Primary or secondary syphilis | 206 | 56 | 4.4 | 44 | 16.5 | 11.6 |
Genital ulcera | 405 | 61 | 2.4 | 39 | 16.5 | 12.1 |
Gonorrhea | 5646 | 55 | 3.0 | 45 | 12.3 | 8.4 |
Any STDb | 18 613 | 58 | 2.0 | 42 | 7.8 | 5.5 |
No STD | 33 647 | 62 | 1.9 | 38 | 6.8 | 4.3 |
aIncludes primary syphilis.
bIncludes syphilis at any stage, gonorrhea, chlamydia, genital ulcer, cervicitis, nongonococcal urethritis, pelvic inflammatory disease, trichomoniasis.