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Published in: AIDS and Behavior 4/2019

Open Access 01-04-2019 | Original Paper

No Place Like Home? Disentangling Preferences for HIV Testing Locations and Services Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in China

Authors: Stephen W. Pan, Maya Durvasula, Jason J. Ong, Chuncheng Liu, Weiming Tang, Hongyun Fu, Chongyi Wei, Cheng Wang, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Joseph D. Tucker

Published in: AIDS and Behavior | Issue 4/2019

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Abstract

In China, some health departments and gay community-based organizations have begun to offer home-based HIV testing kits in order to augment test uptake among men who have sex with men (MSM). However, HIV test preferences and motivations for home-testing among MSM in China are not well understood. The HIV testing preferences of 803 MSM throughout China were evaluated using single-item assessment and a discrete choice experiment (DCE). In both the single-item assessment and DCE, participants expressed strong preference for free and anonymous testing by health professionals. Both approaches also indicated that naïve testers most prefer home testing. However, among previous testers, the single-item assessment indicated that “home” was the most preferred testing location (vs. hospital or clinic), while the DCE indicated that “home” was the least preferred testing location after controlling for anonymity. HIV home-testing may have limited appeal to previously tested Chinese MSM if anonymity is not maintained.
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Metadata
Title
No Place Like Home? Disentangling Preferences for HIV Testing Locations and Services Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in China
Authors
Stephen W. Pan
Maya Durvasula
Jason J. Ong
Chuncheng Liu
Weiming Tang
Hongyun Fu
Chongyi Wei
Cheng Wang
Fern Terris-Prestholt
Joseph D. Tucker
Publication date
01-04-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
AIDS and Behavior / Issue 4/2019
Print ISSN: 1090-7165
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3254
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-018-2366-0

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