HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing Service Preferences in a Rural Malawi Population |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Joseph?deGraft-JohnsonEmail author Valerie?Paz-Soldan Antonio?Kasote Amy?Tsui |
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Institution: | (1) Save the Children Federation USA, Malawi, Africa;(2) Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA;(3) Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;(4) 1615 Thames Street (Suite 205), Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA |
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Abstract: | Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) services have become an integral component of HIV prevention efforts in sub-Saharan
Africa. This study of a rural Malawi district population examined variation in past and desired use of VCT services among
868 women aged 15 to 34 and 648 men aged 20 to 44 aware of HIV/AIDS. Only 11% of men and 7% of women had been tested, but
of those untested, 76% of men and 61% of women desired testing. Ninety percent of respondents willing to know their results
preferred to hear them from a test site counselor and on the same day of the test. However, 27% of women wanting to be tested
did not want to know their test results, a finding significantly associated with knowing someone affected by AIDS and perceiving
oneself at HIV infection risk. Knowledge of the behaviors of HIV prevention, knowing someone with AIDS, knowing the locations
of a test site, and perceived risk of HIV infection all had a consistently significant association with past and future VCT
use for men and women. |
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Keywords: | HIV VCT population-based Malawi |
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