Table 1.
Characteristics of participating sites (The Combine! Project)
| Characteristics | Sites* |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porto Alegre | São Paulo | Ribeirão Preto | Fortaleza | Curitiba | |
| Availability of PEP (year) | 2010 | 2010 | 2011 | 2008 | 2009 |
| Type of health service where PEP is available | |||||
| STD/HIV clinic | x | x | x | ||
| Emergency service | x | x | x | ||
| VCT centre | x | x | |||
| Most attended groups | |||||
| Homosexual men | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd |
| Bisexual men | |||||
| Heterosexual men | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | |
| Heterosexual women | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | |
| Sex workers | 3rd | 3rd | |||
| Service seeking (%) | |||||
| Spontaneous | 78.6 | 51.6 | 53.5 | 70.0 | 80.0 |
| Referred by a health provider | 21.4 | 48.4 | 46.5 | 30.0 | 20.0 |
| Services and inputs | |||||
| Treatment for STDs | x | x | x | x | x |
| Treatment for hepatitis | x | x | x | x | |
| Hepatitis vaccination | x | x | x | x | x |
| Male condom | x | x | x | x | x |
| Female condom | x | x | x | x | x |
| Pre-exposure prophylaxis | x | ||||
| Counselling on hierarchy of sexual risk | x | x | x | ||
| Counselling on using the test to establish a sexual agreement with the partner | x | x | |||
| Adherence to antiretroviral therapy and follow-up | x | x | x | ||
| Follow-up time (days) | |||||
| 1st consultation | 30 | 7–10 | 20 | 30–45 | 30–45 |
| 2nd consultation | 60 | 30 | 45 | 90 | 90 |
| 3rd consultation | 90 | 90 | 90 | 180 | 180 |
| 4th consultation | 120 | 180 | 180 | Absent | Absent |
| Contact absent users | x | ||||
*City of Porto Alegre- Serviço de Atendimento Especializado DST/AIDS, Vila dos Comerciários; city of São Paulo—Centro de Referência e Treinamento de DST e Aids; city of Ribeirão Preto—Centro de Referência em Especialidades Central; city of Fortaleza—Hospital São José de Doenças Infecciosas; and city of Curitiba—Centro de Orientação e Aconselhamento.
PEP, postexposure prophylaxis; STD, sexually transmitted disease; VCT, voluntary counselling and testing.