KAIS 2007 1 - Kenya National AIDS & STI Control Programme ...

Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs chapter 7about HIV/AIDS7.1 Key findings• Overall, 98.3% of adults aged 15-64 years had heard about AIDS.• Knowledge about HIV/AIDS increased since 2003; knowledge was highestamong respondents who reported higher education and among urban residents• Overall, 76.9% of women and men agreed that people with the AIDS virusshould not be ashamed of themselves and 91.5% were willing to care for anHIV-infected family member in their home.• Of persons who did not self-report HIV positive, 70.7% believed they had smallor no risk of acquiring HIV; of these, 6.2% were HIV-infected and 76.7% citedhaving only one sexual partner as the reason for having small or no risk.7.2 IntroductionKnowledge of HIV and perceptions of risk for HIV infection are essential for making behaviouralchoices that reduce risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV. For more than 10 years, educationalcampaigns in Kenya have aimed to disseminate information about the disease, how it is acquired, andhow to prevent new infections. This chapter summarises data on knowledge, attitudes and beliefsabout HIV/AIDS and examines factors associated with knowledge of HIV transmission, stigma relatedto HIV, perceptions of risk for HIV.Appendix B.7 provides sample sizes and 95% confidence intervals for estimates presented in thischapter. Throughout the chapter, the term significant indicates a chi‐square p‐value less than 0.05;marginally significant indicates a p‐value between 0.05 and 0.10, inclusive; and not significantindicates a p‐value greater than 0.10.For any analysis that compares weighted estimates from the 2003 KDHS and the 2007 KAIS in thischapter, a z‐test was used to determine if differences between the two estimates were statisticallysignificant. Methods used for calculating the z‐test statistic are described further in Appendix A.KAIS 2007 116