Table 1 Characteristics of YMSM aged 18–24 years according to self-reported HIV positive status in Brazil, Mexico and Peru, 2018
|  | Brazil (N = 4231; 61.0%) | Mexico (N = 1743; 25.1%) | Peru (N = 967; 13.9%) | Total (N = 7001) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
HIV- | HIV+ | HIV- | HIV+ | HIV- | HIV+ | HIV- | HIV+ | |
3905 n (%) | 326 (7.7) n (%) | 1596 n (%) | 147 (8.4) n (%) | 815 n (%) | 152 (15.7) n (%) | 6316 n (%) | 625 (8.9) n (%) | |
Recruitment | ||||||||
 Apps | 3544 (90.8) | 304 (93.3) | 1440 (90.2) | 132 (89.8) | 346 (42.5) | 45 (29.6) | 5330 (84.4) | 481 (77.0) |
 Facebook | 361 (9.2) | 22 (6.7) | 156 (9.8) | 15 (10.2) | 469 (57.5) | 107 (70.4) | 986 (15.6) | 144 (23.0) |
Race | ||||||||
 White | 1668 (43.4) | 118 (36.8) | N/A |  | 147 (18.8) | 30 (20.8) | 1815 (39.3) | 148 (31.8) |
 Black | 734 (19.1) | 59 (18.4) | N/A |  | 14 (1.8) | 2 (1.4) | 748 (16.2) | 61 (13.1) |
 Pardo or Mestizo | 1378 (35.9) | 135 (42.1) | N/A |  | 595 (76.3) | 108 (75.0) | 1973 (42.7) | 243 (52.3) |
 Indigenous | 38 (1.0) | 7 (2.2) | N/A |  | 18 (2.3) | 4 (2.8) | 56 (1.2) | 11 (2.4) |
 Asian | 24 (0.6) | 2 (0.6) | N/A |  | 6 (0.8) | 0 (0.0) | 30 (0.6) | 2 (0.4) |
Education | ||||||||
  ≤ Secondary education | 2566 (67.3) | 236 (73.5) | 645 (40.4) | 63 (42.9) | 289 (35.9) | 46 (31.5) | 3500 (56.3) | 345 (56.2) |
  > Secondary education | 1246 (32.7) | 85 (26.5) | 951 (59.6) | 84 (57.1) | 517 (64.1) | 100 (68.5) | 2714 (43.7) | 269 (43.8) |
Income | ||||||||
 Low | 2670 (68.4) | 244 (74.8) | 775 (54.1) | 68 (51.1) | 425 (58.6) | 84 (61.8) | 3870 (63.8) | 396 (66.6) |
 Middle | 1026 (26.3) | 62 (19.0) | 567 (39.6) | 54 (40.6) | 281 (38.8) | 49 (36.0) | 1874 (30.9) | 165 (27.7) |
 High | 209 (5.4) | 20 (6.1) | 90 (6.3) | 11 (8.3) | 19 (2.6) | 3 (2.2) | 318 (5.2) | 34 (5.7) |
Sexual Attraction | ||||||||
 Men | 3543 (90.7) | 312 (95.7) | 1380 (86.5) | 137 (93.2) | 641 (78.7) | 131 (86.2) | 5564 (88.1) | 580 (92.8) |
 Men and Women | 362 (9.3) | 14 (4.3) | 216 (13.5) | 10 (6.8) | 174 (21.3) | 21 (13.8) | 752 (11.9) | 45 (7.2) |
Steady partner | ||||||||
 No | 3200 (82.6) | 251 (78.2) | 1241 (78.5) | 102 (70.8) | 588 (73.8) | 91 (60.7) | 5029 (80.4) | 444 (72.2) |
 Yes | 676 (17.4) | 70 (21.8) | 339 (21.5) | 42 (29.2) | 209 (26.2) | 59 (39.3) | 1224 (19.6) | 171 (27.8) |
Last HIV test | ||||||||
  ≤ 1 year | 3351 (86.5) | 271 (84.7) | 1269 (80.6) | 110 (76.4) | 614 (76.0) | 110 (74.8) | 5234 (83.7) | 491 (80.4) |
  > 1 year | 523 (13.5) | 49 (15.3) | 305 (19.4) | 35 (23.6) | 194 (24.0) | 37 (25.2) | 1022 (16.3) | 120 (19.6) |