TABLE 2.
Role of Participants | Participant HIV Infection Status |
Partner HIV Infection Status* |
No. Participants Engaging in Act With Partner |
No. (%) Participants Reporting Saliva Use as a Lubricant During Act |
Odds Ratio (95% CI)† |
P |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Insertive‡ | Infected | Uninfected | 15 | 1 (6.7) | Reference | |
Infected | Infected | 21 | 12 (57.1) | 13.5 (2.0 to 89.4) | 0.007 | |
Uninfected | Uninfected | 112 | 50 (44.6) | Reference | ||
Uninfected | Infected | 32 | 10 (31.3) | 0.62 (0.30 to 1.3) | 0.20 | |
Receptive§ | Infected | Uninfected | 20 | 6 (30.0) | Reference | |
Infected | Infected | 25 | 18 (72.0) | 5.4 (1.9 to 15.3) | 0.002 | |
Uninfected | Uninfected | 115 | 45 (39.1) | Reference | ||
Uninfected | Infected | 23 | 5 (21.7) | 0.45 (0.19 to 1.04) | 0.06 |
Denotes participants’ perception of partners’ HIV infection status.
As estimated by generalized estimating equations.
For each partner type, participants were asked “In the last 6 months, with how many men did you put penis in the man’s rectum (with or without a condom)?” For men who indicated that they had had insertive anal intercourse within the past 6 months, the following question was asked: "With how many of these men did you use your own saliva as a lubricant (“lube”)?
For each partner type, participants were asked “In the last 6 months, with how many men put their penis in your rectum (with or without a condom)?” For men who indicated that they had had receptive anal intercourse within the past 6 months, the following question was asked: "How many of these men used their own saliva as a lubricant (“lube”)?