Piaoyi Chiou
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Title: Ten minutes eliciting interview promote the uptake of HIV test and sexual network analysis through referred sexual partners of men who have sex with men
Biography
Biography: Piaoyi Chiou
Abstract
Men who have sex with men (MSM) tests for HIV often self-recognize when they have been exposed to unsafe sexual behavior and many sexual partners. It would therefore be important to include the sexual networks to the HIV testing campaign. The study aimed to elicit and deliver the HIV test to the sexual partners of MSM who received HIV pre-test counseling and discover the unknow link of sexual network. Recruitment was done through purposeful and snowball sampling. A ten minutes structured personal risk network interview was conducted to elicit the referral of sexual partners within three months. An anonymous HIV quick test was delivered at a time and place where convenient to the sexual partners. There is 28.2% (75/266) of the index subjects referred or disclosed the information of 167 sexual partners; 127 of them accepted the HIV test which was 1.7 times more than the index subjects and 40 of them only been disclosed. The tested sexual partners have higher HIV risk behavior and HIV positive rate (3/127, 2.36%) than the index subjects and the tested subject who did not refer sexual partners. Four of prior HIV+ sexual partners were disclosed by the index subjects. The sexual network analysis revealed that 21.9% (53/242) of the subjects had directly sexual link to the HIV+ subjects. Non-tested sexual partners play an important role of directly linking with HIV + subjects and transmission bridge. The results hold important implications for HIV community screening and contact tracing for HIV case finding and surveillance.