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Objective To understand the prevalence of HIV human immunodeficiency virus testing and associated factors among sexual active college students in Zhuhai City. Methods From November to December 2019 an anonymous electronic questionnaire was administered among 12 235 students in six colleges and universities in Zhuhai City by multistage sampling. A total of 1 789 college students ever had sex were selected. Pearson’s Chisquare test and nonconditional Logistic regression model were applied to analyze the factors associated with uptake of HIV testing. Results Among these students ever had sex 7.55% 135/ 1 789 had been tested for HIV mainly through hospitals 71.85% . The main reasons for testing were regular testing 50.37% and intending to know their infection status 23.70% . Multivariable Logistic regression showed that homosexual individuals OR= 4.62 95%CI= 1.07-19.95 and those who had heterosexual commercial sex in the past year OR = 3.77 95%CI = 1.96-7.26 were more likely to test for HIV while female OR= 0.41 95%CI= 0.24-0.69 were less likely to test for HIV. Conclusion The proportion of HIV testing was low among sexual active college students in Zhuhai City. Interventions should be tailored including strengthening the HIV testing propaganda education and enhancing students’ awareness of HIV testing and the influencing factors such as gender sexual orientation and commercial sexual behavior should be taken into consideration so as to improve the HIV testing coverage of this population. ? 2021 Authors.
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