HIV/AIDS among youth in urban informal (slum) settlements in Kenya: What are the correlates of and motivations for HIV testing?

Table 3 Estimated odds ratios (and confidence intervals) from logistic regression analyses of HIV testing status, by sex

	Males		Females
	Odds Ratios	[95% CI]	Odds Ratios	[95% CI]
HIV knowledge	1.39	[0.89,2.18]	0.92	[0.68,1.25]
It is a good idea to use condoms to prevent HIV infection (ref. agree)
Disagree	1.28	[0.86,1.91]	1.1	[0.74,1.62]
Don't know	1.27	[0.54,3.00]	0.49*	[0.23,1.03]
Perceived chances of getting HIV (ref. low)
About 50-50	1.14	[0.86,1.52]	0.85	[0.64,1.13]
High	0.76	[0.34,1.72]	1.52	[0.79,2.94]
Anxiety about being infected with HIV (ref. not worried)
Very worried	0.99	[0.74,1.31]	1.12	[0.83,1.51]
Somewhat worried	0.98	[0.68,1.42]	1.18	[0.80,1.75]
Age	1.28***	[1.20,1.35]	1.27***	[1.20,1.35]
Viwandani (ref. Korogocho)	1.48***	[1.14,1.93]	1.07	[0.82,1.40]
Religion (ref. Catholic)
Protestants	1.37*	[0.98,1.91]	0.98	[0.69,1.40]
Pentecostal or other Christians	0.97	[0.68,1.39]	1.03	[0.74,1.42]
Muslims	0.78	[0.49,1.25]	0.37***	[0.21,0.65]
Other	0.73	[0.50,1.08]	1.09	[0.69,1.72]
In school (ref. out of school)	0.88	[0.65,1.20]	0.78	[0.55,1.10]
Married (ref. not married)	1.37	[0.71,2.63]	1.1	[0.69,1.75]
Ever pregnant (ref. never pregnant)	1.18	[0.63,2.19]	7.29***	[4.61,11.53]
Ever sex (ref. never had sex)	1.86***	[1.38,2.52]	2.37***	[1.67,3.36]
Wald chi-square	261.48***		542.8***
Pseudo R²	0.1497		0.3771
N	2015		1971

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