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 |
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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.