Trends and correlates of HIV testing amongst women: lessons learnt from Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorAchia, Thomas N.O.
dc.contributor.authorObayo, Eunice
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-12T10:40:01Z
dc.date.available2016-08-12T10:40:01Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: A majority of women in Kenya do not know their HIV status and are therefore unable to take preventive measures or medication in order to prolong their lives. OBJECTIVES: This study investigates the key determinants of HIV testing in Kenya and documents how these changed over the 1998-2008 period. METHOD: This study uses data from the 1998, 2003 and 2008 Kenya Demographic and Health surveys. Principal components analysis was used to compute indices of HIV knowledge, HIV-related stigma, media exposure and decision making. Survey logistic regression analysis was used to determine factors that had a statistically-significant association with ever having been tested for HIV. RESULTS: Testing was significantly higher in 2008 compared with the previous surveys. In 1998, 14.7% of the women had tested for HIV. The rate increased to 15.0% in 2003 and then to 59.2% in 2008. In the 1998 and 2003 Kenya Demographic and Health surveys, respondents' age, region of residence, education, knowledge of someone who had died from HIV-related illness and media exposure were the main determinants of testing. In the 2008 study, HIV-related stigma, occupation and the partner's level of education were found to be associated with HIV testing. CONCLUSION: Despite efforts to scale up voluntary counselling and testing in Kenya over the 1998-2008 period, HIV testing amongst women is still quite low. Prevention and control programmes in Kenya need to focus on reducing HIV-related stigma, increasing access to testing in rural areas and increasing access amongst women with little or no education.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDHETen_US
dc.identifier.citationAchia, T.N.O. and Obayo, A.E. (2013). Trends and correlates of HIV testing amongst women: lessons learnt from Kenya. African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 5(1): 1-10en_US
dc.identifier.issn2071-2936
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/2373
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherAOSIS
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v5i1.547
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectHIV testingen_US
dc.subjectWomen in Kenyaen_US
dc.subjectPreventionen_US
dc.subjectDemographic and Health surveysen_US
dc.subjectVoluntary HIV Counselling and Testing (VCT)en_US
dc.titleTrends and correlates of HIV testing amongst women: lessons learnt from Kenyaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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