TABLE 3.
HIV Testing Patterns, Time Since Last HIV/STI Test, and Recent STI Diagnoses by HIV Status of Men Within 361 MSM Couples
| HIV Status |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negative | Positive | Unknown | ||||||
| Sample size | N = 722 | N = 606 | N = 91 | N = 25 | ||||
| MSM | MSM | MSM | MSM | |||||
| HIV testing pattern | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| Tested positive before relationship started | — | — | — | — | 40 | 44 | — | — |
| Not been tested since relationship started | 176 | 24 | 118 | 19 | — | — | 15 | 60 |
| Approximately once a year | 187 | 26 | 176 | 29 | 17 | 19 | 1 | 4 |
| Approximately every 6 mo | 122 | 17 | 105 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Every 3–4 mo | 50 | 7 | 36 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Only if felt at-risk | 187 | 26 | 171 | 28 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 36 |
| Time since last test | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD |
| Last HIV test in months* | 37.6 | 64.7 | 23.6 | 45.3 | 81.7 | 81.7 | 91.6 | 100.8 |
| Last STI test in months | 19.1 | 38.0 | 20.0 | 39.7 | 13.91 | 28.5 | 16.2 | 22.7 |
| Times tested for HIV since relationship started† | 3.2 | 5.9 | 3.2 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 7.9 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Recent STI diagnosis | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| Herpes | 5 | [lt]1 | 3 | [lt]1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| HPV | 16 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Chlamydia | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Gonorrhea | 9 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | [lt]1 |
| Syphilis | 3 | [lt]1 | 2 | [lt]1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| One or more STIs | 32 | 4 | 22 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 1 | [lt]1 |
*
Time since last HIV test for HIV-positive MSM excluded the 40 men who tested positive before their relationship started; data only includes the 51 remaining HIV-positive men.
†
Among the 25 MSM with unknown HIV status, 20 men had not been tested since their relationship started and 5 reported that they were tested once.
HIV indicates human immunodeficiency virus; MSM, men who have sex with men; STI, sexually transmitted infection.