Importance of the Media in Scaling-Up HIV Testing in Kenya

Elijah O. Onsomu, DaKysha Moore, Benta A. Abuya, Peggy Valentine and Vanessa Duren-Winfield

SAGE Open, 2013, vol. 3, issue 3, 2158244013497721

Abstract: The main objective of this study was to examine the association between media exposure and voluntary counseling and testing (VCT), and factors that influenced VCT among Kenyan women and men. Retrospective cross-sectional data from Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2003 were used, adjusting for weights and strata to account for survey complex design. The study sample comprised women aged 15 to 49 ( n = 8,050) and men aged 15 to 54 ( n = 3,539). Among those who read newspapers/magazines almost every day, fewer women (15%) had been tested for HIV than men (31%), p

Keywords: HIV testing; media; scaling-up; Kenya (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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