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Bisexuality, Sexual Risk Taking, and HIV Prevalence Among Men Who Have Sex With Men Accessing Voluntary Counseling and Testing Services in Mumbai, India.

Kumta S, Lurie M, Weitzen S, Jerajani H, Gogate A, Row-Kavi A, Anand V, Makadon H, Mayer KH

From the *Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, New Delhi, India; daggerWarren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; double daggerWomen and Infants Hospital of RI; section signLTM Medical College/LTM General Hospital; ||Health Centre, Mumbai University; paragraph signHumsafar Trust; #Harvard Medical School, Harvard University; **The Fenway Institute, Fenway Community Health; and daggerdaggerThe Miriam Hospital.

OBJECTIVES:: To describe sociodemographics, sexual risk behavior, and estimate HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevalence among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Mumbai, India. METHODS:: Eight hundred thirty-one MSM attending voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) services at the Humsafar Trust, answered a behavioral questionnaire and consented for Venereal Disease Research Laboratory and HIV testing from January 2003 through December 2004. Multivariate logistic regression was performed for sociodemographics, sexual risk behavior, and STIs with HIV result as an outcome. RESULTS:: HIV prevalence among MSM was 12.5%. MSM who were illiterate [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 2.28; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.08 to 4.84], married (AOR 2.70; 95% CI: 1,56 to 4.76), preferred male partners (AOR 4.68; 95% CI: 1.90 to 11.51), had partners of both genders (AOR 2.73; 95% CI: 1.03 to 7.23), presented with an STI (AOR 3.31; 95% CI: 1.96 to 5.61); or presented with a reactive venereal disease research laboratory test (AOR 4.92; 95% CI: 2.55 to 9.53) at their VCT visit were more likely to be HIV infected. CONCLUSIONS:: MSM accessing VCT services in Mumbai have a high risk of STI and HIV acquisition. Culturally appropriate interventions that focus on sexual risk behavior and promote condom use among MSM, particularly the bridge population of bisexual men, are needed to slow the urban Indian AIDS epidemic.

Published 28 January 2010 in J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 53(2): 227-233.
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