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Table 5 Perceived reasons preventing or delaying mens access to VMMC, by urbanrural status and total among survey participants

From: A cross-sectional study describing motivations and barriers to voluntary medical male circumcision in Lesotho

Perceptions

Maseru urban clinics (Carewell, Apex) N = 73

Non-maseru rural clinics (Ntsekhe, Mokhotlong) N = 88

Total N = 161

 

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Perceived reasons preventing men from accessing VMMC

   

  Long wait time

4 (5.5)

1 (1.1)

5 (3.1)

  Mixing young and old clients

2 (2.7)

3 (3.4)

5 (3.1)

  Being attended to by female staff

7 (9.6)

22 (25.0)

29 (18.0)

  HIV testing

15 (20.6)

9 (10.2)

24 (14.9)

  Fear of pain

45 (61.6)

46 (52.3)

91 (56.5)

  Fear of injection

4 (5.5)

5 (5.7)

9 (5.6)

  Long healing time, abstinence

3 (4.1)

4 (4.6)

7 (4.4)

  Concern about VMMC safety

3 (4.1)

2 (2.3)

5 (3.1)

  Preference for traditional male circumcision.

2 (2.7)

5 (5.7)

7 (4.4)

  Other: lack transport fare, VMMC doesn’t give full HIV protection, don’t know where to get VMMC, poor service, bad attitude from health staff

8 (11.0)

7 (8.0)

15 (9.3)

  1. Open-ended questions where participant may give none, one or more than one response therefore proportion in table may not add up to 100.0%.