Ru2hot?: A public health education campaign for men who have sex with men to increase awareness of symptoms of acute HIV infection.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Teach HIV-negative men who have sex with men (MSM) symptoms of acute HIV infection (AHI) and direct them to nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT) though Public Health--Seattle & King County (PHSKC).

Design

Cross-sectional surveys, retrospective database analysis and chart review.

Methods

Beginning in June 2009, the ru2hot? campaign described AHI symptoms and NAAT. Two preintervention and two postintervention surveys assessed campaign visibility, symptom knowledge, and healthcare-seeking behaviour. Regression analyses evaluated secular trends in case-finding.

Results

366 MSM completed surveys. In survey 4, 23% of 100 men reported seeing the campaign, and 25% knew 'ru2hot?' referred to AHI. From survey 1 to survey 4, the proportion of subjects who

SUBMITTER: Stekler JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4257701 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature