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Trang Quyen Nguyen, PhD, MPH, Carol A. Ford, MD, Jay S. Kaufman, PhD, Peter A. Leone, MD, Chirayath Suchindran, PhD and William C. Miller, MD, PhD, MPH

At the time of the study, Trang Quyen Nguyen was a doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Chirayath Suchindran is with the Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Jay S. Kaufman is with the Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Peter A. Leone and Carol A. Ford are with the Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. William C. Miller is with both the Department of Epidemiology and the Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to William C. Miller, Department of Epidemiology, CB#7435, 2105F McGavran-Greenberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599–7435 (e-mail: bill_miller{at}unc.edu).

We estimated prevalence and odds ratios for self-reported HIV testing among sexually experienced young adults using nationally representative data obtained from Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). The prevalence of testing in the past year was 18.8%.

Young adults who had private or no health insurance were less likely to report testing than were young adults who had public health insurance, particularly in the South. Respondents with functional income were less likely to report testing than were those without functional income, particularly in the South and Northeast. Variable HIV testing based on finances and insurance should be addressed.