Table 3.

Factors affecting supervised and unsupervised HIV self-testing

Theme	Quotation
Confidence and Counselling	“I can say I was able to use it because I was interested and I wanted to do it and I followed instruction, but if there was someone who was here with me to guide me on how to use it, I would have been more at ease.” (IDI, Male, HTN, 0006)
Confidence and Counselling in the event of HIV positive result	“I prefer HIVST because there are instructions to follow to do the test, but at the same time if I discover I am positive, I may not know what to do and will have no one to give me counselling, whereas if there is a counsellor, she would be able to tell me what to do.” (IDI, Male, RT, 0013)
Confidence, Confidentiality, Counselling	“HIVST is private and not hard to do by yourself, it’s just the counselling is not there.” (IDI, Female, RT, 0029)

Note: RT Routine tester, HTN HIV testing naive