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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Infect. 2014 Jan 3;90(3):223–229. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051265

Table 2.

Male sex workers’ sexual practices during the last 3 months

Cercado (downtown)
n=62
Non-Cercado (close urban)
n=26
p-value Cercado (downtown)
n=62
Non-Cercado (close urban)
n=26
p-value
% n/N % n/N % n/N % n/N
Male and transgender partners Female partners
Any male/trans partner 100% 62/62 100% 26/26 1.00 Any female partner 48% 30/62 89% 23/26 <0.01
Number of male/trans partners, median (IQR) 21 (10-50) 14 (6-40) 0.20 Number of female partners, median (IQR) 2 (1-7) 9 (3-15) 0.02
Any insertive AI 97% 60/62 100% 26/26 0.49 Any vaginal sex 100% 30/30 100% 23/23 1.00
    “Always” condom use, insertive AI 38% 23/60 50% 13/26 0.31     “Always” condom use, vaginal sex 23% 7/30 39% 9/23 0.17
Any receptive AI 48% 30/62 19% 5/26 0.01 Any anal sex 53% 16/30 74% 17/23 0.11
    “Always” condom use, receptive AI 40% 12/30 50% 2/4 0.70     “Always” condom use, anal sex 25% 4/16 53% 9/17 0.09
Overall practices 0.03 Overall practices 0.10
    Only insertive AI 52% 32/62 81% 21/26     Only vaginal sex 47% 14/30 26% 6/23
    Only receptive AI 3% 2/62 0% 0/26     Only anal sex 0% 0/30 0% 0/23
    Both insertive and receptive AI 45% 28/62 19% 5/26     Both vaginal and anal sex 53% 16/30 74% 17/23