TABLE 4.
HIV Testing Patterns and Other HIV/STI Characteristics of 631 HIV-Negative and Unknown Status MSM Who Recently Engaged in UAI Within and/or Outside of Their Primary Relationship
| UAI |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Within Relationship | Outside Relationship | Within and Outside Relationship | ||||
| Sample size: 631 HIV-negative and unknown status MSM | N = 511 MSM | N = 79 MSM | N = 67 MSM | |||
| Testing pattern | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| Not been tested since the relationship started | 111 | 22 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 9 |
| Approximately once a year | 145 | 28 | 24 | 30 | 22 | 33 |
| Approximately every 6 mo | 86 | 17 | 18 | 23 | 14 | 21 |
| Every 3–4 mo | 30 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 |
| Only if felt at-risk | 139 | 27 | 25 | 32 | 21 | 31 |
| Time since last test | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD |
| Last HIV test in months | 25.3 | 48.1 | 15.8 | 38.4 | 16.4 | 41.2 |
| Last STI test in months | 18.1 | 36.0 | 11.0 | 16.4 | 11.0 | 17.1 |
| Times tested for HIV since relationship started | 2.8 | 5.1 | 6.2 | 8.7 | 6.3 | 9.2 |
HIV indicates human immunodeficiency virus; MSM, men who have sex with men; STI, sexually transmitted infection; SD, standard deviation; M, mean.