Table 3.
Diagnosed STIs, stratified by recruitment method: n (%); results for lifetime and the previous 12 months
| Chat- & Dating Sites n = 3,267 |
'Bareback' website n = 447 |
Medical Facilities n = 671 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last 12 m. | Lifetime | Last 12 m. | Lifetime | Last 12 m. | Lifetime | |
| HIV | 55 (1.7)§ | 217 (6.6) | 61 (13,7)§ | 240 (53.7) | 68 (10,1)§ | 417 (62.1) |
| HCV | 16 (0.5) | 33 (1.0) | 16 (3.6) | 27 (6.0) | 19 (2.8) | 46 (6.9) |
| Chlamydia | 69 (2.1) | 191 (5.8) | 46 (10.3) | 106 (23.7) | 55 (8.2) | 135 (20.1) |
| Syphilis | 81 (2.5) | 238 (7.3) | 77 (17.2) | 169 (37.8) | 64 (9.5) | 191 (28.5) |
| Gonorrhoea (urethral) | 101 (3.1) | 425 (13.0) | 74 (16.6) | 180 (40.3) | 47 (7.0) | 211 (31.4) |
| Gonorrhoea (rectal) | 26 (0.8) | 76 (2.3) | 19 (4.3) | 49 (11.0) | 22 (3.3) | 68 (10.1) |
| Gonorrhoea (pharyngeal) | 14 (0.4) | 36 (1.1) | 5 (1.1) | 20 (4.5) | 10 (1.5) | 20 (3.0 |
| Any of the above (not HIV) | 233 (7.1) | 688 (21.1) | 167 (37.4) | 293 (65.5) | 152 (22.7) | 380 (56.6) |
| Of those: Informed partner(s) | 98 (42.1) | 68 (40.7) | 111 (73.0) | |||
§ Latest HIV test in 2005 or 2006 (i.e. within the previous 18 months); assuming that HIV-testing is equally spread over the year, this value was adjusted to 12 months