Who Provides Biologic Specimens for HIV Prevalence Research?
Comparison of Provision in Two Cross-Sectional Studies of Men who have Sex with Men in Ontario Ted Myers1 Dan Allman1, 6 Kunyong Xu1 Robert S. Remis1 Liviana Calzavara1 John Maxwell3 Carol Swantee7 Winston Husbands3 Paquette Dana4 Chris Archibald5 1. HIV Social, Behavioural and Epi Studies Unit, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; 2. Ontario HIV Epidemiologic Monitoring Unit, Toronto, ON; 3. AIDS Committee of Toronto, Toronto, ON; 4. University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 5. Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON; 6. Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, , United Kingdom; 7. Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto, ON Objectives: Two cross-sectional studies undertaken at different points in time, collected different biological specimens for subsequent testing for HIV, HCV and other STI’s. This analysis compares the rates of provision of the two different specimen
