HIV Testing and Awareness of Partner's HIV Status Among Chinese Men Who Have Sex with Men in Main Partnerships

摘要: Many men who have sex with (MSM) do not use condoms their main partners, especially if both parties are of the same HIV status. However, significant proportions MSM never tested or recently and unaware partners’ A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 524 in Jiangsu, China 2013–2014. Time-location sampling online convenience were used to recruit participants. We compared awareness status recent testing between participants had partners versus those did not, identified factors associated partnerships. Participants partnerships significantly more likely report being HIV-negative instead HIV-unknown casual only. Overall, 74.5 % aware Among partnerships, 2–5 male anal past 6 months reported that 2.36 (95 CI 1.12, 4.97) 4.20 2.03, 8.70) fold greater odds year only whose HIV-positive/unknown, respectively. Chinese might be practicing serosorting may at lower risk for infection due increased higher uptake testing.