Uptake of HIV testing in Burkina Faso: an assessment of individual and community-level determinants

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Table 2 Knowledge of access to HIV testing, HIV knowledge, sex behaviors, and HIV stigma in women and men of Burkina Faso, 2010

Variables		Women		Men
Variables	N	Proportion (%)^a	N	Proportion (%)^a
Access/HIV knowledge^b
Know a place to get tested	No	3345	24.3	1295	24.6
	Yes	11,400	75.6	4481	75.3
	Missing	13	0.1	4	0.1
HIV knowledge score	Low	4888	34.2	1731	31.8
	Medium	4881	34.6	1588	26.8
	High	4867	30.4	2440	40.9
	Missing	122	0.8	21	0.4
Sexual behavior
Lifetime number of sexual partners	1	11,026	75.4	1169	21.4
	2	2812	18.7	1454	26.0
	3 or more	904	5.8	3121	51.9
	Missing	16	0.1	36	0.7
Personal stigma
If a relative would become HIV positive, willing to share his/her infection status	No (stigma)	10,894	73.9	3193	57.6
	Yes	3860	26.1	2587	42.4
	Missing	4	0.0	0	0.0
Willing to care for an HIV positive relative in their own house	No (stigma)	2314	16.5	473	9.3
	Yes	12,443	83.5	5307	90.7
	Missing	1	0.0	0	0.0
Believes that an HIV positive female teacher (without symptoms) should teach	No (stigma)	5466	38.9	1917	35.4
	Yes	9292	61.1	3862	64.4
	Missing	0	0.0	1	0.0
Willing to buy food from an HIV positive vendor	No (stigma)	9402	64.8	3078	56.2
	Yes	5355	35.2	2694	43.6
	Missing	1	0.0	8	0.1

^aProportions take into account sampling weights
^bThe five (men) and nine (women) questions entering the HIV knowledge index are: people can protect themselves from contracting HIV by (1) using condoms; (2) having sex only with one faithful, uninfected partner; (3) people knowing that mosquitoes can’t transmit HIV and (4) that it cannot be transmitted by sharing food with an HIV-infected person; (5) a healthy looking person can have the AIDS virus; and, for women only, (6) people who report that HIV can be transmitted from mother to child during pregnancy, (7) delivery, and (8) through breastfeeding; and (9) know drugs to avoid AIDS transmission to baby during delivery and breastfeeding

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