Access to HIV Services for Mobile and Migrant Populations in Antigua

Reasons for not having had a recent HIV test.
It is quite evident that fear has crippled quite a significant percentage of the
respondents because when asked to indicate reasons why they have not had a recent HIV
test 32.4% confessed that they were afraid of the answer or result. While on the other
hand, another 20.1% just didn’t think about it and 3.5% did not know where to go and
1.7% thinks that they did not need one which too is cause for concern, none of the
participants said that not being able to afford it was reason that they had not accessed
testing. 4.3% indicated that language barriers affected them. The Not Applicable
respondents were the ones who had been recently tested.
Table 85- Showing reasons why participants have not been tested. (Q30). CSW
Study. 2012.
Responses Number Percentage
Did not know where to go 4 3.5
Afraid of the answer 37 32.4
I do not need one 2 1.7
They don’t speak my language 5 4.3
Can’t afford it 0 0.0
Didn’t think about it 23 20.1
Other 19 16.6
Not applicable 24 21.0
Total 114 99.6
Availability of HIV/AIDS information
When asked if in the past 12 months HIV/AIDS information was received 86.8% of
participants responded in the affirmative while 8.7% responded by saying that they did
not. This indicates that the stakeholders have been doing a good job of keeping the
population up to date with current HIV/AIDS education and information but more work
still has to be done to reach 100% education. For those who received information, the
majority came from
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