TY - JOUR
T1 - “know your status”
T2 - Results from a novel, student-run hiv testing initiative on college campuses
AU - Milligan, Caitlin
AU - Cuneo, C. Nicholas
AU - Rutstein, Sarah E.
AU - Hicks, Charles
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 The Guilford Press.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Know Your Status (KYS), a novel, student-run program offered free HIV-testing at a private university (PU) and community college (CC). Following completion of surveys of risk behaviors/reasons for seeking resting, students were provided with rapid, oral HIV-testing. We investigated testing history, risk behaviors, and HIV prevalence among students tested during the first three years of KYS. In total, 1408 tests were conducted, 5 were positive: 4/408 CC, 1/1000 PU (1% vs, 0.1%, p = 0.01). Three positives were new diagnoses, all black men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM). Over 50% of students were tested for the first time and 59% reported risk behaviors. CC students were less likely to have used condoms at last sex (a surrogate for risk behavior) compared to PU (OR 0.73, CI |0.54, 0.98|). Race, sexual identity, and sex were not associated with condom use, These results demonstrate that KYS successfully recruited large numbers of previously untested, at-risk students, highlighting the feasibility and importance of testing college populations.
AB - Know Your Status (KYS), a novel, student-run program offered free HIV-testing at a private university (PU) and community college (CC). Following completion of surveys of risk behaviors/reasons for seeking resting, students were provided with rapid, oral HIV-testing. We investigated testing history, risk behaviors, and HIV prevalence among students tested during the first three years of KYS. In total, 1408 tests were conducted, 5 were positive: 4/408 CC, 1/1000 PU (1% vs, 0.1%, p = 0.01). Three positives were new diagnoses, all black men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM). Over 50% of students were tested for the first time and 59% reported risk behaviors. CC students were less likely to have used condoms at last sex (a surrogate for risk behavior) compared to PU (OR 0.73, CI |0.54, 0.98|). Race, sexual identity, and sex were not associated with condom use, These results demonstrate that KYS successfully recruited large numbers of previously untested, at-risk students, highlighting the feasibility and importance of testing college populations.
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U2 - 10.1521/aeap.2014.26.4.317
DO - 10.1521/aeap.2014.26.4.317
M3 - Article
C2 - 25068179
AN - SCOPUS:84907797476
SN - 0899-9546
VL - 26
SP - 317
EP - 327
JO - AIDS Education and Prevention
JF - AIDS Education and Prevention
IS - 4
ER -