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YEAR: 1991

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

HIV seroprevalence in clients of sentinel family planning clinics.

AUTHORS

Stricof RL; Nattell TC; Novick LF

SOURCE

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 1991 May;81 Suppl:41-5.

ABSTRACT

From 1988-1990, researchers screened and tested blood for HIV from 27,549 women at 41 sentinel family planning

clinics in New York State. The clinics only included those that routinely drew blood for syphilis serology of all initial

clients. They also conducted a risk assessment study of 6892 clients at 30 clinics in 1988. After undergoing an

ELISA test and a Western blot test, 144 (.52%) samples tested HIV antibody positive. 14 clinic sites which

contributed 11.8% of the study population had no seropositives. 8 clinics had an HIV seroprevalence rate >1%. The

higher HIV seroprevalence rate (3.91%) occurred in a mobile clinic in New York City. Further the highest

seroprevalence rate according to place of residence (.82%) was in New York City with the boroughs of Bronx and

Staten Island having the higher (.98%) and lowest rates (.67%) respectively. The rest of the state had a

seroprevalence rate of .24% with those counties closest to New York City (.54%) having 5 times the rate of other

countries (.11%). HIV seroprevalence increased with age up until age 40 or more across all racial and ethnic groups.

For example, an HIV seroprevalence rate of 0% occurred among women <15 years old, .18% among 15-19 year

olds, and 1.56% for 35-39 years old. Minority women (non-Hispanic Black or Hispanic) exhibited an HIV

seroprevalence rate (.76%) 6 times that of non-Hispanic Whites (.13%). The leading reported risk factors included

having sexual relations with + or + 4 partners within a 6 month period (5.55%), having lived in a high risk country

(1.99%), having sexual relations with an intravenous drug user (1.86%), and having sexual relations with a bisexual

male (1%). 8.46% said they had at least 1 of the risk factors. No trend over time in HIV seroprevalence was evident

during the study period. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 2044-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "HIV seroprevalence in clients of sentinel family planning

clinics.", is(are) Stricof RL; Nattell TC; Novick LF. The source of this article is "AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC

HEALTH. 1991 May;81 Suppl:41-5.". This article was published in 1991 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info®

Document ID: CONT3T 2044-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 12044

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