Table 1.
Question | Number of Men Responding (N = 398) | Percentage of Men Responding (95% CI) |
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Awareness of KS | ||
Have not heard of KS | 70 | 27.0 (20.3 to 35.0) |
Heard of KS | 328 | 73.0 (65.0 to 79.7) |
Knowledge of the cause of KS | ||
HIV or HIV/AIDS | 166 | 35.2 (29.0 to 41.9) |
Don’t know | 118 | 30.4 (23.8 to 37.8) |
Sexual contact | 3 | 0.6 (0.2 to 2.0) |
Poppers | 1 | 0.1 (0.02 to 1.0) |
“Hepatitis retrovirus” | 1 | 0.3 (0.04 to 2.1) |
A virus other than HIV* | 19 | 3.4 (2.0 to 5.7) |
KSHV or HHV-8* | 17 | 2.5 (1.4 to 4.4) |
“A herpes virus”* | 3 | 0.5 (0.1 to 1.8) |
Any of these responses: 6.4% (4.4 to 9.2)