| Potential Eligibility Criteria (Predictor Variables) |
Participants with Characteristic |
HIV Prevalence |
Sensitivity |
Specificity |
| No. |
% |
(%) |
(%) |
(%) |
| Individual Risk Behavior* |
| Crack use |
1560 |
11 |
3.1 |
23 |
90 |
| Exchange sex |
1686 |
11 |
2.9 |
24 |
89 |
| ≥5 sex partners |
3111 |
21 |
2.1 |
32 |
79 |
| Incarcerated >1 week |
1184 |
8 |
2.2 |
13 |
92 |
| STD diagnosis |
1978 |
13 |
2.6 |
25 |
87 |
| Any of the above |
6066 |
41 |
2.0 |
59 |
59 |
| Sexual Networks* |
| Partner had HIV-positive or unknown status |
8527 |
58 |
1.8 |
75 |
42 |
| Partner was IDU, MSM§, had been incarcerated, used crack, or participant didn’t know partner’s HIV status |
5975 |
41 |
1.8 |
77 |
37 |
| Partner was HIV-positive, IDU, MSM§; or participant didn’t know partner’s HIV status |
8797 |
55 |
2.3 |
46 |
79 |
| Sexual concurrency**
|
8566 |
58 |
1.5 |
73 |
39 |
| Socio-Structural Context |
| Living in high risk area |
12074 |
82 |
1.5 |
87 |
18 |
| Limited education (≤high school graduate) |
10827 |
73 |
1.6 |
84 |
27 |
| Low income (≤HHS poverty guidelines) |
11025 |
75 |
1.6 |
86 |
25 |
| Low socio-economic status (income ≤HHS poverty guidelines¶ or education ≤high school) |
13015 |
88 |
1.5 |
96 |
12 |
| Total |
14750 |
100 |
1.4 |
|
|
* Behaviors are in the 12 months prior to NHBS interviewAll sexual network questions are based on participant responses about their most recent opposite-sex partner.
§ Female participants who reported a sex partner was a man who had sex with men.
** Participant had concurrent partners with last sex partner or reported that last partner definitely or probably had concurrent sex partners or did not know if last partner had concurrent partners.
¶ http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/07poverty.shtmlHHS indicates Department of Health and Human Services; IDU indicates injection drug use; MSM indicates men who have sex with men; STD indicates sexually transmitted disease.