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Sexual Partnerships with Men and Women Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Beijing and Chongqing, China, 2010

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HIV is spreading among Chinese MSM and may possibly lead to infection of female partners. Pressure to marry may drive a greater proportion of Chinese MSM to have female partners than MSM elsewhere in the world. Measurement of the size of the potential risk to female partners of Chinese MSM is inconsistent in the literature. From samples of MSM in two Chinese cities, we documented numbers of sexual partners and sexual activity with those partners. About 500 MSM were sampled in each city. 11.0 and 12.6 % of men reported having any female partners in the past 6 months in Chongqing and Beijing, respectively. Men also reported that only 7.3 and 6.7 % of their entire partnerships were with women in Chongqing and Beijing, respectively. Defining transmission risk accounting for receptive anal sex among men and condom non-use with both male and female partners, 3.4 % of MSM in both Chongqing and Beijing would have the potential to transmit HIV to female partners. Only 9 (1.8 %) men in Chongqing and 2 (0.4 %) in Beijing were HIV-positive and also had unprotected intercourse with females. The majority of HIV transmission risk among MSM in China is not from MSM to females.

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by Grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81273188), Chinese State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Development Grant (2012SKLID103) and the U.S. National Institute of Health Grants (R01AI078933).

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, and National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention (NCAIDS), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Yuhua Ruan, Yan Xiao & Yiming Shao

  2. Chongqing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

    Guohui Wu, Rongrong Lu & Liangui Feng

  3. Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Hongyan Lu, Yuejuan Zhao & Xiong He

  4. San Francisco Department of Public Health, 25 Van Ness, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA, 94102, USA

    Willi McFarland & H. Fisher Raymond

  5. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94105, USA

    Willi McFarland & H. Fisher Raymond

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Ruan, Y., Wu, G., Lu, H. et al. Sexual Partnerships with Men and Women Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Beijing and Chongqing, China, 2010. AIDS Behav 18, 180–188 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-013-0505-1

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