Prevalence of sexual behaviours and drug use: men and women by region of origin
| Men | Women | |||||
| A8* n=939 | A2† n=329 | p Value‡ | A8 n=1097 | A2 n=264 | p Value | |
| Heterosexual practices | ||||||
| Vaginal intercourse in past month | 61.2% | 53.4% | 0.057 | 70.1% | 76.0% | 0.374 |
| Oral-genital contact in the past year | 69.0% | 60.6% | 0.008 | 61.6% | 44.6% | <0.001 |
| Anal sex in the past year | 30.6% | 23.5% | 0.018 | 22.9% | 13.3% | 0.001 |
| Condom used on all occasions, past 4 weeks** and: | n=224 | n=76 | n=135 | n=18 | ||
| One partner past year | 31.6% | 29.6% | 0.913 | 24.9% | 30.1% | 0.197 |
| Two or more partners past year | 34.8% | 55.3% | 0.002 | 34.1% | 33.3% | 0.950 |
| All | 33.6% | 42.7% | 0.050 | 27.0% | 31.5% | 0.389 |
| Risk perception | ||||||
| More at risk of HIV in UK than home country | n=767 | n=271 | n=884 | n=225 | ||
| 57.0% | 52.0% | 0.066 | 52.8% | 47.1% | 0.271 | |
| Sexual partnerships | ||||||
| Number of heterosexual partners past year: mean (SD) | 2.36 (3.7) | 3.29 (8.5) | 0.064 | 1.42 (3.8) | 1.07 (1.0) | 0.010 |
| Ever had homosexual partners | 5.0% | 2.8% | 0.091 | 6.1% | 1.9% | 0.007 |
| Concurrent partnerships, past year§ | 23.4% | 32.2% | 0.019 | 8.9% | 3.3% | 0.010 |
| Ever paid for sex | 28.5% | 44.1% | <0.001 | NA | NA | NA |
| Where paid for sex (n=382) | 0.911 | NA | ||||
| UK¶ | 31.7% | 31.6% | NA | NA | ||
| Home country¶ | 35.0% | 38.2% | NA | NA | ||
| Both in UK and home country¶ | 17.1% | 15.4% | NA | NA | ||
| Elsewhere | 16.3% | 14.7% | NA | NA | ||
| Drug use | ||||||
| Ever injected non-prescribed drugs | 6.6% | 1.2% | <0.001 | 2.5% | 0.0% | NA |
| Injected non-prescribed drugs in past year | 2.4% | 0.0% | NA | 1.3% | 0.0% | NA |
| Recreational drug use in past year (excluding intravenous drugs) | 37.3% | 14.2% | <0.001 | 13.3% | 5.0% | <0.001 |
| Sexual health | ||||||
| Ever had HIV test | 31.0% | 37.5% | 0.032 | 32.4% | 34.9% | 0.450 |
| Ever diagnosed with an STI (excludes candidiasis) | n=798 | n=277 | n=988 | n=236 | ||
| 8.6% | 11.6% | 0.153 | 12.8% | 11.0% | 0.455 | |
| Registered with a general practitioner | 45.1% | 35.1% | 0.002 | 67.5% | 58.6% | 0.006 |
↵* A8 refers to Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.
↵† A2 refers to Bulgaria and Romania.
↵‡ Comparing A8 with A2.
↵§ Among those who had vaginal or anal sex in the past year.
↵¶ May also include men who have paid for sex elsewhere in addition to UK or home country.
↵** Restricted to those reporting sex in past 4 weeks, refers to anal or vaginal sex.