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. 2022 Jan 7;17(1):e0260935. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260935

Table 2. Risky behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the MENA region.

Risky Behaviors Among MSM
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)