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

Figure 15.4b HIV-infected participants aged 15-64 years who returned to receivetheir test results by self-reported HIV status, Kenya 2007.Percent Returning to Receive TestResults (%)70605040302010045.133.3Report positive Report negative Never tested/Neverreceived results37.1 37.2All HIV-infectedPerceived HIV Status among HIV-infected ParticipantsFigure 15.4b More than a third of HIV-infected participants who had never tested forHIV returned to receive their test results.Overall, 37.2% of HIV‐infected participants returned to receive their results during the 2007KAIS. This estimate was lower than the overall proportion of participants who returned toreceive test results in the 2007 KAIS. This difference could be due the following reasons: someHIV‐infected persons already knew their status, some participants may have suspected theywere infected and did not want to confirm their actual status or some participants may havebeen too sick to travel to the health facility to receive results. HIV‐infected participants whodisclosed their status during the survey were more likely to return for their test results than HIVinfectedparticipants who had never tested, believed that they were uninfected based on theirlast test or who did not disclose their HIV status.More than one third (35.8%) of HIV‐infected individuals who did not know their current HIVstatus prior to the survey (that is, they had never been tested for HIV or believed themselves tobe uninfected based on their last test) learned they were infected with HIV through the 2007KAIS. Individuals who learned they were HIV‐infected were provided behavioural counselling,referred to appropriate care and treatment services and to partner testing. These resultsdemonstrate an important service that HIV testing and returning test results had for participantsin the 2007 KAIS that would have otherwise not been provided.15.5 RETURNING TO RECEIVE TEST RESULTS BY PREGNANCY STATUSKAIS 2007 277