Abstract
HIV prevalence is increasing rapidly among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China and potentially associated with the number of male sexual partners that each man has on average. This study estimates the distribution of the number of male sexual partners among Chinese MSM through a comprehensive review of English and Chinese published literature. The overall median number of male sexual partners of Chinese MSM in the past 6 months China was estimated to be 1.5 (95% CI, 1.1–1.8) and 3.8 (95% CI 1.5–6.9) sexual partners in the past 6-month and 12-month periods respectively. An estimated 31% of sexual partners of MSM in China are regular partners, 54% are casual partners, and 16% are commercial partners. The reported numbers of sexual partners has not changed over time during the past decade. The numbers of male sexual partners reported by Chinese MSM is consistently lower than other settings and may not be sufficient to explain the recent rapid increase in HIV prevalence.
Highlights
Keywords used in the search included (HIV or AIDS, sexual behavior or risk behavior) and or and China
Studies have reported that 3742% men who have sex with men (MSM) in Australia, USA and Western European countries have more than 10 sexual partners in the past 6 months,[10,11,12,13,14,15,16] approximately 5-fold greater than in China
The number of partners reported by MSM in China is 1.5-4 times fewer than reported in other developing countries such as Brazil and India.[17,18,19]
Summary
We identified 749 articles from four electronic databases (105 in PubMed, 194 in CQVIP, 224 in CNKI and 226 in Wanfang), we identified 15 articles from reference lists of published articles. China are a population group at increasing mined publications were decided by the third were screened and we further excluded 163 risk for HIV infection. MSM in China has increased from 1.4-5.3% the distribution of sexual partners of human ed 74 articles at this stage There are limited We investigate the temporal trend of number there were 21 eligible articles (8 in systems in place for collecting routine behav- of sexual partners of MSM in the past 10 years English and 13 in Chinese) included in this ioral surveillance data for at-risk populations using the Spearman non-parametric correla- study. The mean average number of sexual partners for MSM in China in the past 6 months was estimated to be 3.7 Brief Report nerships (Table 1).[8,9] Based on these data, we estimate that 31% of sexual partners of MSM in China are regular partners, 54% are casual partners, and 16% are commercial partners
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
