HIV/AIDS Special Surveillance Report. HIV Testing Survey, 2002. Number 5

摘要

Tailoring HIV prevention programs to selected groups is based on an understanding of the distribution of risky behaviors in the population and the association between these risky behaviors and infection. For example, data on sexual behaviors and drug use have allowed the CDC to guide the planning, implementation, and evaluation of HIV prevention services to men who have sex with men (MSM) and injection drug users (IDUs). HIV testing remains an important component of prevention activities; learning one's HIV status is the key steppingstone to care or to ongoing services to reduce behavioral risk. This report focuses on HIV testing patterns and risk behaviors among 3 groups at high risk for HIV infection: MSM recruited at gay bars, IDUs recruited through street outreach or at needle exchange programs (NEPs), and high-risk heterosexual adults (HRHs) recruited at sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics. Data in this report come from the HIV Testing Survey (HITS), which was conducted in the states of Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, and Washington and the cities of Los Angeles (California), New York City (New York), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Houston (Texas), and Milwaukee (Wisconsin) in 2002.