Concurrence of drug users' self-report of current HIV status and serotest results.
This study examines the concurrence of drug users' self-reports of current HIV status with serotest results. The analyses are based on data obtained from face-to-face interviews with 7,256 out-of-treatment injection drug and/or crack users in 10 sites that participated in the Cooperative Agreement for AIDS Community-Based Outreach/Intervention Research Program (funded by the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse ). Although the degree of concurrence between HIV-negative individuals' self-reports of their current HIV status and their serotest results was high (specificity, 99%), this was not the situation for individuals who tested positive for HIV (sensitivity, 44%).
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National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., New York City, NY 10048, USA. shiela.strauss@ndri.org
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012650:Self Disclosure; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000523:psychology*; D014342:Truth Disclosure