Table 3.

Conditional on accepting testing and obtaining the test results in 2004, percentage of respondents who were successfully contacted for the HIV test in 2006, percentage of those who were contacted that accepted testing and percentage of those who accepted testing that obtained the test results by HIV status in 2004 and by HIV-risk characteristics, Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MIDCP) 2004–2006

	Contacted in 2006 by HIV status in 2004 (%)			Accepted testing by HIV status in 2004 (%)			Obtained test results by HIV status in 2004 (%)
Characteristics†	HIV negative	HIV positive	All respondents	HIV negative	HIV positive	All respondents	HIV negative	HIV positive	All respondents
Number of unions	**	NS	**	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Never married/married once	76.7	45.0	75.3	96.1	81.5	95.8	99.5	100.0	99.5
Multiple unions	84.8	58.8	81.9	96.2	82.5	95.1	99.8	97.0	99.6
Number of life-time sexual partners	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
No partner/one	79.2	48.2	78.0	95.6	84.6	95.3	99.2	100.0	99.2
Multiple partners	82.3	56.8	80.3	96.4	81.5	95.7	99.6	97.7	99.5
Suspects spouse/partner of infidelity	**	NS	**	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
No/no partner/don’t know	81.7	55.7	80.5	96.3	84.1	95.9	99.3	97.3	99.3
Suspects/knows	73.3	48.9	70.3	95.1	78.3	93.7	100.0	100.0	100.0
Worried about getting AIDS	**	NS	**	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
No/don’t know	82.4	53.6	81.0	96.5	86.7	96.2	99.4	96.2	99.3
Worried a little/a lot	74.1	51.4	72.3	95.5	78.4	94.6	99.5	100.0	99.5
Perceived risk of current infection	*	NS	*	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
No/low risk/don’t know	79.1	49.0	77.5	95.9	81.6	95.4	99.4	97.5	99.3
Medium/high risk	72.1	64.3	70.9	99.1	83.3	96.8	100.0	100.0	100.0
Knows someone with/died of AIDS	**	*	**	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
No/don’t know	59.3	88.9	62.0	98.2	75.0	95.2	100.0	100.0	100.0
Yes	81.2	50.4	79.3	96.0	83.1	95.5	99.4	98.0	99.4
Total	78.5	52.3	76.9	96.1	82.1	95.5	99.4	98.2	99.4
n	1862	128	1999	1462	67	1537	1405	55	1468

χ² tests: *p<0.05;

^**p<0.01;

NS, not significant;

^†all characteristics pertain to 2006.