Table 10.

Average Belief of Likelihood of Infection before and after VCT (Dependent variable: Likely to be HIV infected)

Panel A: HIV negative
Baseline survey		Follow-up survey
(1)		Did not get results (2)		Got results (3)		Difference (4)
0.43	(0.49)	0.49	(0.50)	0.13	(0.33)	−0.38***	(0.03)
Panel B: HIV positive
Baseline survey		Follow-up survey
(1)		Did not get results (2)		Got results (3)		Difference (4)
0.58	(0.50)	0.46	(0.51)	0.5	(0.51)	0.03	(0.12)

Notes: Sample includes respondents in Balaka and Rumphi who were tested for HIV and were reinterviewed in 2005. Robust standard errors clustered by village with district fixed effects are in parentheses. Controls also include gender, age, and age squared. “Likely to be infected” is equal to zero if the respondent reported no likelihood of HIV infection, and one otherwise. Sample includes 2,428 HIV-negatives and 165 HIV-positives in the baseline survey and 1,430 HIV-negatives and 72 HIV-positives in the follow-up survey.

^***Significantly different from zero at 99 percent confidence level.

^**Significantly different from zero at 95 percent confidence level.

^*Significantly different from zero at 90 percent confidence level.