AIDS (HIV) risk assessment in an inner-city women's clinic.
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.
Dattel
B J
BJ
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, San Francisco General Hospital, California 94110.
Darney
P D
PD
Hauer
L B
LB
Crombleholme
W R
WR
Sweet
R L
RL
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
D015483:HIV Antibodies