Open AccessRisk Behaviors and HIV Incidence Among Repeat Testers at Publicly Funded HIV Testing Sites in San Francisco
Author(s) -
Susan Fernyak,
Kimberly Page,
Timothy A. Kellogg,
William McFarland,
Mitchell H. Katz
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/00126334-200209010-00009
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , odds ratio , confidence interval , incidence (geometry) , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , test (biology) , odds , hiv test , gerontology , multivariate analysis , risk assessment , family medicine , environmental health , logistic regression , population , computer security , paleontology , biology , health services , physics , computer science , optics , health facility , sociology
More than 25% of HIV tests are for individuals who have previously been tested. To characterize repeat testers, we 1) estimated the seroincidence of HIV infection, stratified by risk behavior, and examined the association between 2) testing rates and risk level and 3) repeat testing and tester characteristics.