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

Table 4 Logistic (males) and multinomial logistic (females) regression on predictors of the context under which the recent HIV test was taken, by gender

	Males		Females
	Offered/required vs requested		Offered vs. requested		Required vs. requested
	Odds Ratios	[95% CI]	RRR	[95% CI]	RRR	[95% CI]
HIV knowledge	0.60	[0.28,1.28]	0.90	[0.48,1.70]	0.84	[0.43,1.66]
It is a good idea to use condoms to prevent HIV infection (ref. agree)
Disagree	1.71	[0.84,3.48]	0.74	[0.35,1.57]	1.43	[0.67,3.04]
Don't know	5.68**	[1.18,27.39]	1.47	[0.13,16.98]	10.49**	[1.29,85.09]
Perceived chances of getting HIV (ref. low)
About 50-50	1.52	[0.86,2.69]	1.39	[0.89,2.18]	0.64*	[0.38,1.07]
High	1.03	[0.16,6.62]	0.43	[0.11,1.71]	0.76	[0.19,2.98]
Anxiety about being infected with HIV (ref. not worried)
Very worried	0.81	[0.44,1.49]	0.78	[0.48,1.28]	0.92	[0.56,1.51]
Somewhat worried	1.73	[0.85,3.53]	2.20***	[1.27,3.83]	1.2	[0.60,2.41]
Age	0.83***	[0.73,0.95]	0.96	[0.86,1.08]	0.88*	[0.76,1.01]
Viwandani (ref. Korogocho)	0.78	[0.45,1.35]	1.10	[0.71,1.68]	0.51***	[0.32,0.80]
Religion (ref. Catholic)
Protestants	1.59	[0.82,3.09]	1.03	[0.60,1.77]	1.37	[0.77,2.46]
Pentecostal or other Christians	1.31	[0.63,2.74]	0.75	[0.41,1.35]	2.07**	[1.13,3.80]
Muslims	1.95	[0.78,4.89]	1.33	[0.53,3.35]	1.30	[0.48,3.52]
Other	0.49	[0.19,1.24]	0.92	[0.52,1.63]	0.68	[0.33,1.40]
In school (ref. out of school)	1.29	[0.70,2.39]	2.14**	[1.11,4.14]	0.64	[0.24,1.69]
Married (ref. not married)	0.23*	[0.04,1.19]	0.84	[0.48,1.48]	0.94	[0.53,1.66]
Ever pregnant (ref. never pregnant)	2.54	[0.70,9.28]	4.00***	[2.18,7.35]	36.54***	[13.17,101.34]
Ever sex (ref. never had sex)	0.95	[0.51,1.78]	0.82	[0.43,1.57]	0.48	[0.16,1.42]
Wald chi-square	46.33***		176.25***
Pseudo R2	0.1062		0.1921
N	382		677

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