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Among females, WTA estimates varied with respondents' education, own and partners' HIV testing history, and lifetime reports of transactional sex.
HIV risk, testing history, socioeconomic characteristics, and HIV-related stigma were compared between MVCT participants and randomly selected community respondents who did not access MVCT.
Controlling for HIV risk and testing history, HIV related stigma and fears of testing or test disclosure were negatively associated with presentation to MVCT (Table 4; Figure 1).
When comparing HIV testing history between non-gay and gay identified participants, 135 (72.2%) of non-gay identified participants and 159 58.55%) of gay-identified participants reported they have never tested for HIV before (p = 0.004).
Prior testing history was assessed but not used to determine eligibility.
52 Participants will self-report STI testing history in past 6 weeks.
Testing history was reported more frequently among females and the majority of respondents had recently had an HIV test.
The short (2-page) questionnaire included questions on race/ethnicity, anthropometrics, prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing history and personal history of prostate cancer or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
Results suggest important differences among indigenous, cross-identified and ladino respondents in terms of HIV testing history, knowledge and risk behaviour (see Table 4).
There were no significant associations between demographic characteristics, risk factors, testing history or disease status and the acceptability of universal screening for HCV (see Table 3).
