Abstract
INTRODUCTION: HIV cases are high among the gay or known as men having sex with men (MSM). The aim of this study is to describe the socio-demographic and sexual behaviours of MSM in Malaysia and also to determine the prevalence of HIV among them. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted between December 2014 and March 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Johor, Penang and Sabah. The total sample recruited was 531 respondents using respondent-driven sampling METHODS: (RDS). Descriptive analyses were done using SPSS. RESULTS: Majority of MSM (47.8%) were less than 24 years old with median age of 25. 44.8% were Malays, unmarried (89.8%) and 4.9% were married to woman. 60% of the MSM have attained at least secondary school and 70.6% were employed. The median age of anal sex debut was 17 years old and the median duration of risk behaviour was 7 years. More than half of the respondents (55.3%) reported they have permanent partners, in which, 43.0% were male sexual partners, 11.6% female sexual partners and 2.6% transgender partners. As for condom and substance use, 56.7% reported they used condom during last anal sex. 38.7% reported they consumed alcohol and 19.3% used syabu before sex. 40.9% had HIV test in the last 12 months and 47.9% have adequate awareness on HIV. The prevalence of HIV among the MSM was 8.9% in Malaysia. DISCUSSION: HIV prevention efforts and enforcement on sexual education and awareness need to scale up to reduce the prevalence of HIV especially among the young people.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-62,
title = {HIV Among Gay Men in Malaysia: from Integrated Bio-Behavioural Survey 2014},
author = {Noor Aliza Lodz},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {INTRODUCTION: HIV cases are high among the gay or known as men having sex with men (MSM). The aim of this study is to describe the socio-demographic and sexual behaviours of MSM in Malaysia and also to determine the prevalence of HIV among them. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted between December 2014 and March 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Johor, Penang and Sabah. The total sample recruited was 531 respondents using respondent-driven sampling METHODS: (RDS). Descriptive analyses were done using SPSS. RESULTS: Majority of MSM (47.8%) were less than 24 years old with median age of 25. 44.8% were Malays, unmarried (89.8%) and 4.9% were married to woman. 60% of the MSM have attained at least secondary school and 70.6% were employed. The median age of anal sex debut was 17 years old and the median duration of risk behaviour was 7 years. More than half of the respondents (55.3%) reported they have permanent partners, in which, 43.0% were male sexual partners, 11.6% female sexual partners and 2.6% transgender partners. As for condom and substance use, 56.7% reported they used condom during last anal sex. 38.7% reported they consumed alcohol and 19.3% used syabu before sex. 40.9% had HIV test in the last 12 months and 47.9% have adequate awareness on HIV. The prevalence of HIV among the MSM was 8.9% in Malaysia. DISCUSSION: HIV prevention efforts and enforcement on sexual education and awareness need to scale up to reduce the prevalence of HIV especially among the young people.},
note = {Type: ORAL PRESENTATION; Organisation: Institut Kesihatan Umum},
keywords = {Integrated Bio-behavioural Survey, Malaysia, MSM},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}