Table 1.

Description of recruitment, network/venue tracing, and recent infections.

#	Category of participants	Number in Kriviy Rig	Number in Lviv	Total number
1.	Total number of people screened for HIV, whether indexa cases or as network/venue recruits	217	125	342
2.	Total number of participants who got positive result of rapid HIV antibody test	87	14	101
3.	Total number of recently infected individuals	8	4	12
	• Had preceding negative HIV test result	6	4	10
	• Were younger than 21 years old	2	0	2
4.	Indexa participants who were initially selected for interviews and interviewed because they were recently HIV infected	4	2	6
5.	People named at interviews of recently infected participants as members of their risk networks	251	42	293
6.	Number of risk network members who were recruited to the project (tested and interviewed)	66	20	86
7.	Uninfected risk network members who were recruited to the project	30	9	39
8.	Recently infected risk network members who were recruited to the project	4	2	6
9.	Long-termb infected risk network members who were recruited to the project	32	9	41
10.	Number of venues visited by project team	3	3	6
11.	Number of community alerts distributed through risk networks and at the venues of recent cases	246	92	338

^aIndex cases are those recruited to the project at community-based HIV-testing sites or government AIDS clinics at primary screening.

^bLong-term infected members are those who have HIV Ab-positive test and do not meet the recent/acute infection case criteria.