Study on the prevalence and associated risk factors related to HIV, syphilis, herpes simplex virus-2 among female sex workers in Jiaozhou, Shandong province.

Zheng LI; Dongmin LI; Huixin Liu; Zhenxia Jiang; Lin Zhu; Ning Wang

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Study on the prevalence and associated risk factors related to HIV, syphilis, herpes simplex virus-2 among female sex workers in Jiaozhou, Shandong province.

Author: Zheng LI ¹ ; Dongmin LI ² ; Huixin LIU ² ; Zhenxia JIANG ³ ; Lin ZHU ² ; Ning WANG ⁴
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1. School of Public Health, Peking Union Medical College,Beijing 100730, China.
2. National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
3. Qingdao Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
4. National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Email: wangnbj@163.com.
Publication Type:Journal Article
MeSH: Age Distribution; Amphetamine-Related Disorders; epidemiology; China; epidemiology; Educational Status; Female; HIV Infections; epidemiology; HIV Seropositivity; Herpes Genitalis; epidemiology; Herpesvirus 2, Human; isolation & purification; Humans; Methamphetamine; administration & dosage; Prevalence; Risk Factors; Serologic Tests; Sex Work; Sex Workers; psychology; statistics & numerical data; Superinfection; epidemiology; Syphilis; epidemiology; Treponema pallidum; isolation & purification
From: Chinese Journal of Epidemiology 2014;35(10):1099-1104
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract:
OBJECTIVETo analyze the prevalence rates and associated risk factors on HIV, syphilis, herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2) among female sex workers (FSWs) in Jiaozhou, Shandong province.
METHODSThrough convenient sampling, an anonymous questionnaire survey was conducted on female sex workers to collect related information. Blood specimens were drawn for serological tests on HIV, syphilis and HSV-2 antibodies, respectively. Patients with positive results from both treponema pallidum and HSV-2 tested by ELISA method, were defined as being superinfected.
RESULTSA total of 460 FSWs were recruited in this study. The prevalence rates of HIV, syphilis, HSV-2, and syphilis/HSV-2 superinfection were 0.22% , 5.9% , 43.0% , and 11.7% , respectively. Among the methamphetamine users, the prevalence rates of syphilis, HSV-2, and syphilis/HSV-2 superinfection were 12.4%, 55.2%, and 22.9%, respectively. Results from multivariate analysis showed that factors that significantly associated with syphilis infection would include: methamphetamine use (OR = 3.61, 95% CI:1.62-8.06), having first commercial sex intercourse at under 20 years of age (OR = 2.80, 95% CI:1.15-6.85), more than 2 establishments that the FSWs worked in the last month (OR = 4.37, 95%CI:0.83-22.83). Factors associated with HSV-2 infection were methamphetamine use (OR = 2.30, 95%CI:1.43-3.70), having first commercial sex intercourse at under 20 years of age (OR = 1.77, 95% CI:1.16-2.69), working at low-end establishments (OR = 2.61, 95%CI:1.66-4.10), working at the local sex-work venues for more than one year (OR = 2.01, 95% CI:1.28-3.14), with low education backgrounds (OR = 2.27, 95% CI:1.18-4.36), using methamphetamine (OR = 3.95, 95% CI:2.09-7.44), low education background (OR = 2.43, 95% CI: 1.10-5.36), 21-30 year-olds (OR = 2.95, 95%CI:1.08-8.03), older than 31 years of age (OR = 7.05, 95% CI:2.48-20.01) etc., were independent risk factors associated with the superinfection of syphilis and HSV-2.
CONCLUSIONThe prevalence rates of syphilis, HSV-2 and syphilis/HSV-2 superinfection were relatively high among FSWs in Jiaozhou, especially among the FSWs who were methamphetamine users.