Feasibility
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% of venues agreeing to participate | | 77% (23/30) | | | 100% (16/16) | |
Number of venue sessions | | 70 | | | 57 | |
Acceptability
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Total number of men testing | | 588 | | | 502 | |
Overall % of venue populations who tested | | 9.8% | | | 11.4% | |
% of non-public sex site bar/club populations testing | | 9.0% | | | 9.3% | |
% of sauna populations testing | | 23.1% | | | 34.8% | |
% of cruising ground populations testing | | 11.7% | | | 11.4% | |
% of sex on premises club populations testing | | 12.0% | | | 19.5% | |
Effectiveness in testing at-risk populations
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GUM non-attendance in last year | | 65% (n = 380) | | | 58% (n = 292) | |
No of sexual contacts in past 90 days among all testers: | | | | | | |
0–1 | | 31% (n = 181) | | | 29% (n = 144) | |
2–19 | | 55% (n = 325) | | | 56% (n = 283) | |
20+ | | 14% (n = 82) | | | 15% (n = 75) | |
No of sexual contacts in last 90 days among non-attendees: | | | | | | |
0–1 | | 37% (n = 139) | | | 34% (n = 99) | |
2–19 | | 53% (n = 202) | | | 53% (n = 154) | |
20+ | | 10% (n = 39) | | | 13% (n = 39) | |
Difference between community testers and known syphilis cases:
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Phase 1 testers (n = 588)
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Known cases (n = 93)
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p Value*
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Phase 2 testers (n = 502)
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Known cases (n = 156)
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p Value*
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Age (median) | 33 | 33 | 0.545 | 36 | 34 | 0.170 |
Number of sexual contacts in last 90 days (median) | 4 | 3 | 0.733 | 3 | 3 | 0.675 |
Effectiveness in identifying new index cases of syphilis
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No of EIA positive results | | 29 | | | 43 | |
No of previously undiagnosed syphilis cases | | 8 | | | 9 | |
No of previously undiagnosed syphilis cases that were early syphilis | | 4 | | | 2 | |
Co-infection | 1×HIV+ (already diagnosed) | 1×HIV+ (already diagnosed) |
| 1×rectal gonorrhoea (co-diagnosed) | 1×rectal gonorrhoea (co-diagnosed) |
| 1×chlamydia (co-diagnosed) | | | |