Behavioral and molecular tracing of risky sexual contacts in a sample of Chinese HIV-infected men who have sex with men.

ABSTRACT: Contact tracing, coupled with molecular epidemiologic investigation, is especially useful for identifying an infection with few cases in the population, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in China. No such research is available on Chinese men who have sex with men (MSM). From 2008 to 2010 in Taizhou Prefecture in China, every newly diagnosed HIV-infected MSM was invited to participate as an "index case" in a contact tracing survey by providing contact information for up to 8 sexual contacts, who themselves were approached to receive voluntary HIV counseling and testing. Those who tested HIV-positive were then subjected to another contact tracing survey. This process was repeated until no more sexual contacts were reported or tested positive. A total of 100 HIV-infected MS

SUBMITTER: Lin H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3566707 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature