title: Recruitment approaches to identifying newly diagnosed HIV infection among African American men who have sex with men.
abstract: To determine effectiveness of alternate venue testing (AVT), social network strategy (SNS) and provider referral (PR) for identifying previously undiagnosed HIV-infected 18-64-year-old African American men who have sex with men (AA MSM) by a health department. For AVT, staff used a mobile clinic to conduct HIV testing. For PR, staff solicited contact information from HIV-infected AA MSM, located contacts and offered HIV testing. For SNS, HIV-positive AA MSM recruited network associates for HIV testing. Two hundred and eighteen self-identified AA MSM were tested through AVT (25.2% HIV positivity) of whom 20 were newly identified HIV-positive. Fourteen HIV-positive men participated in SNS; 22 AA MSM contacts were recruited through SNS, eight (36.4%) were HIV positive and none were new positives. Two HIV-infected men participated in the PR strategy, yielding two AA MSM sex partners (one previously positive). The results suggest the need for health departments to consider using several complimentary strategies for identifying previously undiagnosed HIV infections in AA MSM in urban environments such as Baltimore.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and All Childrens Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine, USA. jellen@jhmi.edu
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ellen
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: McCree
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Muvva
authors.forename: S-E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Miazad
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Arrington-Sanders
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Burnett
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fichtenberg
mesh_terms: D015492:AIDS Serodiagnosis; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015142:Baltimore / Q000453:epidemiology; D003153:Community Health Services; D016358:Contact Tracing; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D008952:Mobile Health Units; D012307:Risk Factors; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012747:Sexual Partners; D012944:Social Support; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: African American; HIV; MSM; alternate venue testing; case finding; diagnosis; men who have sex with men; provider referral; social network strategy; undiagnosed