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Table 1 Characteristics of men who have sex with men (MSM) undergoing HIV testing at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (Australia) from July 1st 2013 until June 30th 2017

From: Incident HIV infection has fallen rapidly in men who have sex with men in Melbourne, Australia (2013–2017) but not in the newly-arrived Asian-born

 

Other MSM

Newly arrived Asian born MSM1

P value

Number of people tested

11,1332

10474

 

Number of testing episodes5

32,962

2781

 

Age, years median (IQR)

29.5 (25.0–37.0)

26.4 (23.5–29.8)

<.0001§

Born in Australia, n (%)

6723 (60.4%)

Born OECD Country6

8727 (78.4%)

58 (5.54%)

<.001

Born S, E or SE Asia7

1331 (12.0%)

 

Newly Arrived2

1846 (16.6%)

 

Days since prior test, median (IQR)

133 (78–273)

109 (63–214)

<.0001§

Symptoms8, n (%)

7260 (22.0%)

466 (16.8%)

<.001

Syphilis8, n (%)

515 (1.56%)

44 (1.58%)

.94

Pharyngeal gonorrhoea8, n (%)

468 (1.42%)

23 (0.83%)

.01

Urethral gonorrhoea 8, n (%)

774 (2.35%)

43 (1.55%)

.007

Urethral chlamydia 8, n (%)

897 (2.72%)

62 (2.23%)

.12

Anal gonorrhoea8, n (%)

1508 (4.57%)

130 (4.67%)

.81

Anal chlamydia8, n (%)

1991 (6.04%)

224 (8.05%)

<.001

Consistent condom use8, n (%)

13,975 (46.3%)

1357 (53.9%)

<.001

10 or more partners in 3 months8 n (%)

4501 (13.7%)

233 (8.4%)

<.001

Positive HIV tests, n

175

36

 

 % of tests performed9

0.53

1.29

<.001

 % of people tested10

1.56%

3.53%

<.001

Incident HIV, n11

126

24

 

 % positive tests12

72.0%

66.7%

.52

 % tests performed9

0.38

0.87

<.001

 % of people tested10

1.13%

2.42%

<.001

  1. 1. Defined as year of arrival in Australia 4 years or less than the year of the HIV test and country of birth one of 26 Eastern, Southern and South-eastern Asian countries
  2. 2. Number of individuals who did not meet criteria at any time during the study
  3. 4. Number of individuals who met the criteria at any time during the study period
  4. 5. Number of tests in people meeting criteria at the time of the test
  5. 6. Country of birth given as one of 35 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Development
  6. 7. Country of birth given as one of 26 southern, eastern or South-eastern Asian countries
  7. 8. Testing episodes
  8. 9. Proportion of all included HIV tests performed during the study period
  9. 10. Proportion of all included individuals tested during the study period
  10. 11. Reported negative HIV test within 1 year or serological evidence of recent infection
  11. 12. Proportion of all positives tests which were acute or early
  12. ¶ = chi squared
  13. § Wilcoxon rank-sum (Mann-Whitney) test