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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cult Health Sex. 2014 Feb 28;16(4):397–411. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2014.883645
Grace: Before we got married, we went for HIV testing. After we went for testing, we
got engaged.
Interviewer: What made you go for testing?
Grace: We wanted to know my and his status on HIV. I told him that if you want to
marry, go for HIV testing first.
Interviewer: What did he say?
Grace: He agreed and he said that he will go. So he went and before that time we
didn’t do anything.
Interviewer: What are you trying to say when you say you didn’t do anything?
Grace: Um, before we started having sex. Yes. So we went for testing first so that we
could know how our bodies are. (semi-structured interview, female #4, age
19)