Table 2.
Potential Eligibility Criteria (Predictor Variables) | Participants with Characteristic | HIV Prevalence | Sensitivity | Specificity | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. | % | (%) | (%) | (%) | |
Individual Risk Behavior* | |||||
Crack use | 1560 | 11 | 3.1 | 23 | 90 |
Exchange sex | 1686 | 11 | 2.9 | 24 | 89 |
≥5 sex partners | 3111 | 21 | 2.1 | 32 | 79 |
Incarcerated >1 week | 1184 | 8 | 2.2 | 13 | 92 |
STD diagnosis | 1978 | 13 | 2.6 | 25 | 87 |
Any of the above | 6066 | 41 | 2.0 | 59 | 59 |
Sexual Networks* | |||||
Partner had HIV-positive or unknown status | 8527 | 58 | 1.8 | 75 | 42 |
Partner was IDU, MSM§, had been incarcerated, used crack, or participant didn’t know partner’s HIV status | 5975 | 41 | 1.8 | 77 | 37 |
Partner was HIV-positive, IDU, MSM§; or participant didn’t know partner’s HIV status | 8797 | 55 | 2.3 | 46 | 79 |
Sexual concurrency** | 8566 | 58 | 1.5 | 73 | 39 |
Socio-Structural Context | |||||
Living in high risk area | 12074 | 82 | 1.5 | 87 | 18 |
Limited education (≤high school graduate) | 10827 | 73 | 1.6 | 84 | 27 |
Low income (≤HHS poverty guidelines) | 11025 | 75 | 1.6 | 86 | 25 |
Low socio-economic status (income ≤HHS poverty guidelines¶ or education ≤high school) | 13015 | 88 | 1.5 | 96 | 12 |
Total | 14750 | 100 | 1.4 |
Behaviors are in the 12 months prior to NHBS interview
All sexual network questions are based on participant responses about their most recent opposite-sex partner.
Female participants who reported a sex partner was a man who had sex with men.
Participant had concurrent partners with last sex partner or reported that last partner definitely or probably had concurrent sex partners or did not know if last partner had concurrent partners.
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/07poverty.shtml
HHS indicates Department of Health and Human Services; IDU indicates injection drug use; MSM indicates men who have sex with men; STD indicates sexually transmitted disease.