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No response 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 5.4NO. OF LIVING MALE CHILDRENNobody 18 7 8 4 8 6 8 59 63.41 person 3 1 0 2 7 3 0 16 17.22 persons 2 0 0 0 5 3 0 10 10.83 persons 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1.14 persons 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2.2No response 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 5.4OTHER POSITIVE MEMBERS IN FAMILYNobody 26 8 8 5 16 11 7 79 84.9Brother 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1.11 Child 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 4 4.32 Children 1 2 2.2Husband 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 4 4.3Wife 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 3.2Positive family membersWhile in 84.9% of the respondents they were the only positive member in their respectivefamilies, there were still others who had positive children or spouses. One DU malereported that his wife was also positive as did two refugees. Three of the heterosexuallyinfected women had positive husbands, three had one positive child each and another hadtwo positive children. One of the female sex workers reported having a positive child andanother reported that her husband was also positive. One of the transgender sex workerhad a positive brother.TestingDuration since HIV diagnosisThis section on testing (Table 4) begins with how long each of the respondents hadknown about their status, what prompted them to go for testing, whether they receivedpre and post test counseling. On the average the respondents had known of their positivestatus for more than four years (53.7 months) ranging from one to 168 months or 14years. Generally about three quarters of them had known their status in the last six yearsalthough almost 20%, most of whom were DUs had known it for more than eight years.This is not unexpected because DUs are more likely to be picked up during drug raidsand therefore could be tested earlier than others. By group, transgender sex workerstended to have been found positive more recently (seven out of eight) only in the last twoyears.How HIV status was discoveredHow the status of respondents were discovered varied but one in four (24.7%) weretested positive when they were advised by their doctors to go for testing. This wasparticularly true with the heterosexually infected men (four out of eight), the MSM (threeout of eight) as well as the women sex workers (five out of 13). Another 16.1% weretested positive when their partners were positive and this was particularly so in the caseof the heterosexually infected women. Similarly one refugee man and two female sexworkers were tested positive due to partner status. As expected most of the DU men were105