Clinic visits, STI testing and STI detection among men who were offered and received reminders group compared with men in the concurrent control group.

Notes:
a. P value for the difference between the offered reminder group, 3-monthly and 6-monthly reminder groups and men not offered reminders.
b. All subsequent visits were within 12 months of the first visit after the SMS reminder project commenced.
c. Complete testing refers to testing for: pharyngeal gonorrhoea, rectal gonorrhoea, urethral chlamydia and rectal chlamydia and serology for both HIV and syphilis at the same visit.
d. If a man had two or more of the following STIs detected at the same testing episode in subsequent visits in the12 month observation period: pharyngeal gonorrhoea, rectal gonorrhoea, urethral chlamydia, rectal chlamydia or syphilis these were classified as concurrent infections.
e. If a man had any of the 5 infections listed in (d) on 2 or more separate testing episodes in subsequent visits in the 12 month observation period men were classified as having repeat infections.