HIV testing experience and risk behavior among sexually active black young adults: A CBPR-based study using respondent-driven sampling in Durham, North Carolina

HIV testing outreach is an important opportunity to connect at-risk black young adults with services to protect their health through prevention for those testing negative and treatment for those infected. Barriers to testing were the same for men and women, but men were less likely to be tested for HIV than women mainly because a primary facilitator of testing, routine screening in clinical settings, was more effective at reaching women.