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. 2016 Jun 2;28(12):1528–1532. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2016.1191602

Table 3. Percent of participants who cite each type of facility as either the place where participant would be “most comfortable” obtaining the HIV self-test kit, or another location if the kit is not available at the “most preferred” place.

  Female (%)
N = 974
Male (%)
N = 472
Ever tested (%)
N = 1278
Never tested (%)
N = 167
Total (%)
N = 1446
Government health facility 78 75 79 68 77
Private health facility 22 16 20 19 20
Pharmacy 23 20 23 18 22
Local administration 13 15 14 9 14
Shop or supermarket 12 13 12 13 12
Mobile clinic 13 10 13 6 12
Social marketing event 8 13 9 13 9
Community health worker 10 9 10 6 9
Faith-based or non-governmental health facility 9 9 9 7 9
School, church, or mosque 6 7 7 8 7
Community-based distributor 4 4 4 3 4
Family, friend, neighbor, etc. 4 8 5 10 5
Voluntary counseling and testing center 5 2 5 1 4
Community-based organization or self-help group 1 1 1 1 1
Non-governmental organization 0 0 0 0 0
Traditional birth attendant 1 0 1 0 0

Source: authors’ analysis of Okal et al. (2014) data.