Table 5.

Reasons for testing (among ever tested) or not testing (among never tested), by gender and sexual experience

	Male			Female
	Never had sex	Ever had Sex	Total	Never had sex	Ever had Sex	Total
Reason for not having been tested
Not sexually active	39.9	5.3	31.1	42.7	1.0	36.4
Not at risk for other reasons	28.0	36.6	30.2	29.6	44.4	31.8
Don't know where to go	4.7	1.7	4.0	4.3	3.6	4.2
Costs too much/lack of money	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.5	0.4
Can get infection from test	0.2	1.2	0.5	0.7	0.5	0.7
Don't want to know status	4.7	18.1	8.1	3.6	17.4	5.7
Someone might see me	0.7	1.7	0.9	0.4	1.0	0.5
Trust myself or partner/sure of status/know myself	3.8	9.6	5.3	3.0	6.1	3.5
Has not thought about it	2.3	3.9	2.7	1.7	6.1	2.4
No reason/nothing	2.9	5.5	3.6	4.4	4.6	4.4
Lacks time/too busy	2.0	4.1	2.6	1.2	3.6	1.5
Fear/Afraid to know status	0.7	2.7	1.2	0.5	2.6	0.9
Still in school/too young	2.4	0.5	1.9	1.2	0.5	1.1
Not interested/don't feel like it	0.4	1.0	0.6	0.3	3.1	0.7
Other/missing responses	7.0	8.0	7.2	6.1	5.1	5.9
N	1,227	415	1,642	1,101	196	1,297
Reason for being tested
To know status	80.9	89.3	85.9	75.3	34.1	44.9
Pregnant or part of pre-natal	--	0.4	0.3	--	59.4	44.2
I'm sexually active	--	0.0	0.3	--	0.6	0.6
Encouraged by counselor	1.9	0.9	1.3	4.4	1.6	2.3
Encouraged by peer educator	3.8	0.4	1.8	3.3	0.4	1.2
Encouraged by parent	1.3	0.4	0.8	1.7	0.0	0.4
Encouraged by peer	2.6	1.3	1.8	1.1	0.6	0.7
To get married	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
Partner told me to do so	0.6	0.9	0.8	1.1	1.2	1.2
Concern about a partner	0.0	0.4	0.3	0.0	0.4	0.3
Required for job/school	1.3	1.3	1.3	2.2	0.4	0.9
Blood Donation	1.9	0.9	1.3	0.6	0.2	0.3
Was Sick	1.9	0.4	1.0	3.3	0.4	1.2
Other/missing responses	3.2	3.0	2.8	5.0	0.8	1.9
N	157	233	390	182	510	692