Table 3. Characteristics of urban refugee and displaced adolescent girls and young women in Kampala, Uganda, by awareness of HIV testing services and lifetime HIV testing (n = 333).
| Variables | Full sample n (%) or mean (SD, range) |
Aware of HIV testing services n (%) or mean (SD, range) |
Not aware of HIV testing services n (%) or mean (SD, range) |
p Value | Lifetime HIV testing (ever) n (%) or mean (SD, range) |
Lifetime HIV testing (never) n (%) or mean (SD, range) |
p Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sociodemographic factors | |||||||
| Age, years | 19.31 (2.56, 16–24) | 19.94 (2.59, 16–24) | 18.30 (2.16, 16–24) | .000 | 20.02 (2.49, 16–24) | 18.45 (2.39, 16–24) | 0.000 |
| Education (n = 333) | .000 | 0.000 | |||||
| Less than secondary school | 190 (57.1) | 100 (49.0) | 90 (69.8) | 82 (45.1) | 108 (71.5) | ||
| Secondary school education | 143 (42.9) | 104 (51.0) | 39 (30.2) | 100 (54.9) | 43 (28.5) | ||
| Place of birth (n = 333) | .000 | 0.920 | |||||
| South Sudan | 30 (9.0) | 21 (10.3) | 9 (7.0) | 15 (8.2) | 15 (9.9) | ||
| Burundi | 111 (33.3) | 82 (40.2) | 29 (22.5) | 64 (35.2) | 47 (31.1) | ||
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 153 (45.9) | 72 (35.2) | 81 (62.8) | 81 (44.5) | 72 (47.7) | ||
| Rwanda | 19 (5.7) | 16 (7.8) | 3 (2.3) | 11 (6.0) | 8 (5.3) | ||
| Others | 20 (6.0) | 13 (6.4) | 7 (5.4) | 11 (6.0) | 9 (6.0) | ||
| Time in Uganda (n = 333) | .650 | .291 | |||||
| >1 year | 23 (6.9) | 12 (5.9) | 11 (8.5) | 14 (7.7) | 9 (6.0) | ||
| 1–5 years | 186 (55.9) | 115 (56.4) | 71 (55.0) | 107 (58.8) | 79 (52.3) | ||
| <5 years | 124 (37.2) | 77 (37.7) | 47 (36.4) | 61 (33.5) | 63 (41.7) | ||
| Immigration status (n = 330) | .791 | .009 | |||||
| Refugees | 305 (92.4) | 187 (92.1) | 9 (7.1) | 161 (89.0) | 144 (96.6) | ||
| Seeking asylum/undocumented | 25 (7.6) | 16 (7.9) | 118 (92.9) | 20 (11.0) | 5 (3.4) | ||
| Employment (n = 333) | .000 | .000 | |||||
| Unemployed | 132 (38.6) | 89 (43.6) | 43 (33.3) | 99 (54.4) | 33 (21.9) | ||
| Student | 155 (46.5) | 72 (35.3) | 83 (64.3) | 58 (31.9) | 97 (64.2) | ||
| Employed | 46 (13.8) | 43 (21.1) | 3 (2.3) | 25 (13.7) | 21 (13.9) | ||
| Lifetime forced sex (n = 333) | .023 | .000 | |||||
| No | 254 (76.3) | 147 (72.1) | 107 (82.9) | 120 (65.9) | 134 (88.7) | ||
| Yes | 79 (23.7) | 57 (27.9) | 22 (17.1) | 62 (34.1) | 17 (11.3) | ||
| Relationship status (n = 312) | .001 | .000 | |||||
| No current partner | 144 (46.2) | 71 (38.4) | 73 (57.5) | 58 (34.5) | 86 (59.7) | ||
| Dating one partner/married | 131 (42.0) | 85 (45.9) | 46 (36.2) | 90 (53.6) | 41 (28.5) | ||
| Casual dating/multiple partners | 37 (11.9) | 29 (15.7) | 8 (6.3) | 20 (11.9) | 17 (11.8) | ||
| Stigma | |||||||
| Adolescent SRH Stigma | |||||||
| Sexual activity & pregnancy stigma | 5.61 (1.97, 0–7) | 5.09 (2.22, 0–7) | 6.44 (1.05, 0–7) | .000 | 5.17 (2.24, 0–7) | 6.14 (1.42, 0–7) | .000 |
| Modern family planning & abortion stigma | 6.04 (1.64, 0–7) | 5.78 (2.02, 0–7) | 7.03 (1.35, 0–7) | .000 | 5.75 (1.97, 0–7) | 6.89 (1.59, 0–7) | .000 |
| HIV-related stigma | 32.05(6.31, 10–40) | 31.58 (6.05, 10–40) | 32.78 (6.65, 13–40) | .093 | 31.47 (6.54, 13–40) | 32.74 (5.95, 13–40) | .064 |
Note: Higher scores indicated experiencing more stigma.