HIV Sentinel Surveillance Among Male Long-Distance Truck Drivers in One City of China,2010
”Objectives” The focus of this study was to determine the prevalence,risk behavior and knowledge of HIV among long-distance trucker drivers.”Methods” We asked participants about their risk behaviors,knowledge of HIV,and we screened them for HIV,hepatitis C,and syphilis.All the analyses were conducted using SPSS version 18.0.”Results” 400 drivers who were recruited from the long-distance truck drivers distribution center participated in this survey,and the rate of HIV awareness was 90.3%.31.8% (127/400) drivers had sex with female commercial sex workers (FCSW) in the latest one year.No participant had sex with man and no driver injected drug.The prevalence of syphilis was 0.5%,and no participant was infected with HIV and Hepatitis C.”Conclusions” More studies need to be done to monitor the trend of HIV prevalence among long-distance truck drivers in the future,even though there was a high rate of HIV awareness and low prevalence of HIV in this study.
Jun-Wei Yan Ya-Nan Wan Wen-Jia Peng Jun-Qing Zhang Chang-Chun Xiao Bing-Xiang Wang Jing Wang
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,School of Public Health,Anhui Medical University,Hefei, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of Hefei City,Anhui Province,China
国内会议
江西省科协第二届学术年会暨华东地区第十一次流行病学学术交流会议
江西鹰潭
英文
485-486
2012-09-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）