title: AIDS (HIV) risk assessment in an inner-city women's clinic.
abstract: Risk assessment and antibody testing are potential modalities through which interventions to reduce heterosexual and perinatal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can occur. More than 98% of women attending inner-city adult gynecology, adult contraception and teen family planning clinics successfully completed self-administered HIV (AIDS) risk assessment questionnaires and received individual counseling, risk-reduction education and referral for antibody testing. Fourteen percent of the women (671/4,802) reported at least one HIV risk factor. Multiple sexual partners and intravenous drug use were the most commonly reported HIV risk factors in this population.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, San Francisco General Hospital, California 94110.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Dattel
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Darney
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Hauer
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Crombleholme
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Sweet
mesh_terms: D015492:AIDS Serodiagnosis; D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*; D000328:Adult; D002140:California / Q000453:epidemiology; D003151:Community Health Centers; D005260:Female; D015483:HIV Antibodies / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population
chemical_list: D015483:HIV Antibodies