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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Health. 2009 Sep;6(3):195–202. doi: 10.1071/SH08049

Table 2.

AIDS knowledge and testing

Male Female

Adults
18–39
Adults
40–49
Adults
50–59
Adults
18–39
Adults
40–49
Adults
50–59
AIDS knowledge score
(Range 0–12)
11.9 11.8 11.5 11.7 11.3 10.6
Knowledge of ARV therapy 50.6 48.5 39.1 44.0 44.5 43.7
Stigma scale 4.4 4.2 3.9 4.5 4.4 4.1
Ever had HIV test 42.9 47.2 38.7 62.6 40.5 15.7
  N 2,238 491 288 2,271 480 271
Reason for last test
  Pregnant - - - 67.0 26.4 8.2
  Job application 10.9 6.9 0.6 1.7 0.6 1.8
  Marriage 6.2 4.3 2.0 0.3 0.6 0.0
  Military recruitment 5.0 0.1 0.0 - - -
  Partner has risk behavior 0.8 0.7 0.0 0.5 19.9 0.5
  Respondent has risk behaviour 2.2 1.5 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.0
  Partner HIV positive 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
  Health check up 13.6 33.0 45.9 6.6 30.2 50.8
  Operation/ sick 11.4 15.3 17.6 10.8 9.8 31.4
  Wanted to know 19.5 13.3 15.3 11.4 4.6 2.3
  Blood donation 13.4 17.0 11.4 1.4 2.6 2.8
  Other 17.0 7.8 6.2 0.6 5.2 1.8
N 868 245 120 1,152 231 49
*

Differences by age group are significant for all measures except the stigma scale for women, p<.05