Table 2. Risky behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the MENA region.
Risky Behaviors Among MSM | ||
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Access to HIV testing | Number of sexual partners | Frequency of injection drug use |
Lebanon | ||
79.6% (Wagner et al. 2018) 94.5% (Heimer et al. 2017) In the past year: 71% undergone at least one test (Maatouk et al. 2016) 75% (Wagner et al. 2012) 22% (Mahfoud et al. 2010) Ever tested: 81.7% (Ghanem et al. 2019) Tested in the last six months: 50.9% (Ghanem et al. 2019) In the past year: 50% (Wagner et al. 2015) |
Over the past three months: 2 (Wagner et al. 2014) Over the past year: 20.7 (Heimer et al. 2017) Over the past year 25.3 (Wagner et al. 2012) Over the past year: 73% had at least one nonregular noncommercial sex partner (38% had five or more), and 37% had at least one regular noncommercial sex partner in the last year (1% had five or more) (Mahfoud et al. 2010) |
Ever injected drugs: 1.7% (Heimer et al. 2017) |
Egypt | ||
Very few young people undergo HIV testing for fear of facing implications of a positive result and associated social stigma. (Abdel- Tawab et al. 2016) | Per week: < 3 among 48.3% of younger persons and among 40.0% of the older ones (El-Sayyed et al. 2008) | Alexandria (4.9%), Luxor (4.8%) and Cairo (2.3%) (FHI/MOHP Egypt 2010) |
Libya | ||
In the past year: 45.6% (Valadez et al. 2013) | ||
Jordan | ||
38% (Alkaiyat et al. 2014) | 64.9% (Alkaiyat et al. 2019) | |
Syria | ||
31.8% (Kobeissi 2014) |