. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Dis. 2008 Dec;35(12):1011–1014. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e318182c91f

Table 1.

Awareness of KS and KSHV in a probability sample of MSM in California.

Question	Number of Men Responding (N = 398)	Percentage of Men Responding (95% CI)
Awareness of KS
Have not heard of KS	70	27.0 (20.3 to 35.0)
Heard of KS	328	73.0 (65.0 to 79.7)
Knowledge of the cause of KS
HIV or HIV/AIDS	166	35.2 (29.0 to 41.9)
Don’t know	118	30.4 (23.8 to 37.8)
Sexual contact	3	0.6 (0.2 to 2.0)
Poppers	1	0.1 (0.02 to 1.0)
“Hepatitis retrovirus”	1	0.3 (0.04 to 2.1)
A virus other than HIV^*	19	3.4 (2.0 to 5.7)
KSHV or HHV-8^*	17	2.5 (1.4 to 4.4)
“A herpes virus”^*	3	0.5 (0.1 to 1.8)

Any of these responses: 6.4% (4.4 to 9.2)