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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trop Med Int Health. 2013 Aug 22;18(10):10.1111/tmi.12171. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12171

Table 5.

Knowledge of HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS services received among 1171* women who had ever heard of HIV/AIDS in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Health zone
Overall [n (%)] Kisenso [n (%)] Masina 2 [n (%)] Binza Météo [n (%)] Bandalungwa [n (%)]
Possible for healthy person to have HIV 1057 (93.5) 265 (95.4) 255 (92.4) 267 (93.3) 270 (94.4)
HIV can transmit from mother to baby 1003 (88.2) 256 (91.0) 250 (87.9) 249 (86.2) 248 (86.3)
Heard of antiretroviral drugs 593 (60.0) 106 (45.1) 148 (62.1) 170 (69.8) 169 (65.9)
Knows a place to be tested for HIV 801 (79.0) 186 (74.9) 179 (74.6) 219 (88.4) 217 (87.8)
Possible to obtain a confidential HIV test 725 (65.8) 192 (74.2) 115 (49.3) 197 (78.1) 221 (84.7)
Ever had an HIV test 845 (72.2) 163 (56.9) 206 (70.6) 264 (89.8) 212 (74.7)
Someone talked to participant about HIV/AIDS in ANC 679 (55.9) 142 (51.0) 145 (51.4) 191 (64.4) 201 (70.1)
Discussed how to prevent HIV transmission to baby in ANC 590 (87.1) 128 (88.8) 120 (84.4) 167 (89.1) 175 (88.5)
Discussed how to prevent getting HIV/AIDS in ANC 646 (93.8) 136 (93.3) 132 (91.6) 183 (96.2) 195 (96.9)
Had an HIV test in ANC 547 (84.8) 96 (72.6) 109 (83.4) 181 (95.4) 161 (84.6)
*

Data were missing for fewer than 5% of participants for all responses except for knowledge of antiretroviral drugs, knowledge of a place to be tested for HIV, thought it was possible to obtain a confidential HIV test, and having an HIV test during ANC, which were missing for 18%, 16%, 15%, and 6% of participants, respectively.

Frequencies are unweighted and percentages are weighted.

Modified Rao-Scott chi-square test of association between variable and health zone has p-value <0.05.