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Brief Non-Commercial Sexual Encounters Among Patrons of Entertainment Venues in Liuzhou, China

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Brief non-commercial sexual encounters among patrons of social venues are increasing in China, but whether these encounters increase syphilis risk is unknown. We surveyed and tested 797 men and women at randomly selected social venues in urban Liuzhou and three surrounding counties. The percent reporting recent non-commercial one-time sex ranged from 14.5 % of county women to 24.8 % of urban men. 2.4 % of men and 3.7 % of women had a positive rapid syphilis test. Men reporting non-commercial one-time sex were significantly more likely to have a positive rapid syphilis test than other men (7.4 vs. 0.9 %). Among women, commercial sex was more strongly associated with syphilis than non-commercial one-time sex (6.0 vs. 0.7 %). Recent one-time sex was common and associated with syphilis among men. Venue-based HIV/STI prevention methods may be warranted among persons who do not engage in commercial sex, but frequently engage in one-time sex.

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Funding for this paper (and the Weir, Li, Edwards et al. paper in this supplement) was provided by USAID under the terms of cooperative agreements GPO-A-00-03-00003-00 and GPO-A-00-09-00003-0; by the National Center for STD Control in China; by the UNC Center for AIDS Research Grant # P30-AI50410; by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development through the UNC R24 ‘Partnership for Social Science Research on HIV/AIDS in China’ (R24 HD056670-01); and through the Population Research Infrastructure Program awarded to the Carolina Population Center at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (R24 HD050924).

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  1. Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 8120, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516, USA

    Sharon S. Weir & Anisha D. Gandhi

  2. Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 8120, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA

    Sharon S. Weir & Anisha D. Gandhi

  3. Institute of Sexuality and Gender and Department of Sociology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

    Suiming Pan, Yingying Huang & Nan Zhang

  4. The National Center for STD Control and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Institute of Dermatology, Nanjing, China

    Xiang-Sheng Chen

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Weir, S.S., Pan, S., Huang, Y. et al. Brief Non-Commercial Sexual Encounters Among Patrons of Entertainment Venues in Liuzhou, China. AIDS Behav 18 (Suppl 2), 135–141 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-013-0642-6

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