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Alternate sites for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) counseling and testing were established in New York State in the late summer of 1985. In a six-month period at the beginning of 1986, 14.4% of individuals who received HIV test results were seropositive. Questionnaire data were obtained from 1,635 persons for development of an epidemiologic profile of attendees: most were white (83%), males (72%), born in the United States (94%), well (80%), who sought testing because they had risk factors (73%) or had had sex with persons at risk (26%). Higher rates of HIV seropositive were found among blacks (26%), Hispanics (30%), males (16%), and those with a known risk factor (18%), and among those with symptoms (21%), than among those without these characteristics. Factors associated with HIV seropositivity are described.
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Grabau, J.C., Truman, B.I., Morse, D.L. (1989). A seroepidemiologic profile of persons seeking anonymous HIV testing at alternate sites in upstate New York. In: Imperato, P.J. (eds) Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0807-2_12
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