Source | Sample size | Age range | Study site | Study year | Study design | Study methods | Key findings |
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Stephenson et al. (2013)u |
36 MSM | 18+ | Urban & peri-urban townships, Cape Town | June-July 2010 & Jan 2011 | Venue-based purposive sampling | FGDs and in-depth interviews | High levels of acceptability of couples-based HCT services catered towards MSM were reported. |
Stephenson et al. (2012)v |
486 MSM | 18+ | South Africa | June and July 2010 | Online recruitment | Internet-based survey | 89.0% acceptability of couples-based HCT. |
Wagenaar, et al. (2012)w |
1154 MSM (USA) & 439 MSM (SA) | 18+ | South Africa and the USA | 2010 | Online recruitment | Internet-based survey | HIV knowledge levels were high for South African MSM (median score 16/18). |
Tun et al. (2012)x | 324 MSM | 18+ | Urban and peri-urban, Pretoria &Attridgeville | 2009 | RDS | Cross-sectional survey | 22.9% endorsed HIV conspiracy beliefs (AIDS information held back from the public, HIV as a man-made virus, & people being used as guinea pigs in HIV research). |
Knox et al. (2013)y | 300 MSM | 18 - 40 | Urban and peri-urban Pretoria | 2008 | Purposive sampling | Survey | 59.0% practiced communication of HIV status to partners. |
Knox et al. (2011)z | 300 MSM | 18 - 40 | Urban and peri-urban Pretoria | 2008 | Purposive sampling | Community-based survey | 67.7% had ever tested for HIV. Social vulnerability (being black, living in a township, and lacking HIV knowledge) reduced likelihood of testing. Low income & not self-identifying as gay reduced repeat testing. Low income and internalized homophobia reduced recent testing. |
Nel et al. (2013)aa | 1045 MSM | 16+ | Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape | 2003, 2005 | Purposive sampling of LGBT persons | Survey | 27.0% never tested for HIV. Most frequent reason for not testing was the perception of not being at risk (57.0%) and fear of being tested (52.0%). |