Table 1. Characteristics of 786 HIV-infected MSM, by recruitment location, who visited the STI outpatient clinic of the Public Health Service or the HIV outpatient clinic of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2008–2009.
| Total population(N = 786) | GGD(N = 586) | AMC(N = 200) | p | ||
| Demographics | |||||
| Median age in years (IQR) | 43 (37–48) | 41 (36–47) | 47 (42–53) | <0.001 | |
| Ethnicity | <0.001 | ||||
| Dutch | 560 (71.3%) | 394 (67.2%) | 166 (83.0%) | ||
| Western, non-Dutch | 98 (12.5%) | 84 (14.3%) | 14 (7.0%) | ||
| Non-western | 128 (16.3%) | 108 (18.4%) | 20 (10.0%) | ||
| Subculture | |||||
| Casual | 693 (88.2%) | 517 (88.2%) | 176 (88.0%) | 0.932 | |
| Leather | 153 (19.5%) | 123 (21.0%) | 30 (15.0%) | 0.065 | |
| Military | 71 (9.0%) | 60 (10.2%) | 11 (5.5%) | 0.044 | |
| Sport | 171 (21.8%) | 143 (24.4%) | 28 (14.0%) | 0.002 | |
| Rubber/lycra | 57 (7.3%) | 45 (7.7%) | 12 (6.0%) | 0.429 | |
| Jeans | 251 (31.9%) | 53 (26.5%) | 198 (33.8%) | 0.056 | |
| Sexual behaviour | |||||
| Median no. of partners in the preceding 6 months (IQR) | 8 (3–20) | 10 (5–25) | 3 (1–8) | <0.001 | |
| Receptive UAI1 | 400 (51.3%) | 58 (29.9%) | 342 (58.4%) | <0.001 | |
| Insertive UAI1 | 348 (44.6%) | 303 (51.7%) | 45 (23.2%) | <0.001 | |
| Receptive fisting | 113 (14.5%) | 100 (17.2%) | 13 (6.7%) | <0.001 | |
| Insertive fisting | 126 (16.2%) | 109 (18.7%) | 17 (8.8%) | 0.001 | |
| Group sex | 301 (38.7%) | 252 (43.2%) | 49 (25.3%) | <0.001 | |
| Poppers use | 416 (53.5%) | 347 (59.5%) | 69 (35.6%) | <0.001 | |
| Other drug use2 | 329 (42.3%) | 289 (49.6%) | 40 (20.6%) | <0.001 | |
| Sexually transmitted infections diagnosis | |||||
| Syphilis3 | 377 (48.0%) | 320 (54.6%) | 57 (28.5%) | <0.001 | |
| Chlamydia | 131 (16.7%) | 115 (19.6%) | 16 (8.1%) | <0.001 | |
| Gonorrhea | 106 (13.5%) | 104 (17.8%) | 2 (1.0%) | <0.001 | |
| HCV | 93 (11.8%) | 81 (13.8%) | 12 (6.0%) | 0.003 | |
NOTE: Numbers do not always add up to the column totals due to missing data; there was 1 missing value for the age variable, 6 missing values for receptive and insertive UAI, 9 missing for other risk behavior variables, and 2 missing for the chlamydia and gonorrhoea variables.
NOTE: The subculture characteristics are not mutually exclusive.
HIV = human immunodeficiency virus; STI = sexually transmitted infection; IQR = interquartile range; UAI = unprotected anal intercourse.
P values were calculated for recruitment at the STI clinic versus the HIV clinic and considered significant when p<0.05. 2 Recreational use of cocaine, XTC, gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), ketamines, amphetamines, or methylamphetamines before or during sexual contact. 3 Based on serological evidence.