Table 5 Example quotes around attitudes towards partner anal examination (Theme 3)
Attitudes towards partner anal examination | Quote |
|---|---|
Willing to have partner anal examination if in a trusted or table relationship | “If we are intimate, and I trust them—but it doesn’t have to be regular [partner], but there has to be some kind of trust in that … Like, my current partner, I would ask them.” —Participant 10, not living with HIV and taking PrEP |
Not comfortable with partner anal examination | “About medical things I would trust a doctor, about a sexual partner I would trust them for sexual things” —Participant 12, living with HIV |