Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV in Rural Area of Democratic Republic of the Congo: Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Survey among Service Users

Table 2

Knowledge, attitude, and behavioral variables frequency (%).

Variables	Frequency (%)
Source of information
Media (TV, radio, journal, etc.)	28 (12)
Health service, health care worker	110 (47)
Vicinity (sexual partner, family, friend, etc.)	68 (29.1)
Church	5 (2.1)
Other	23 (9.8)
Purpose of visit
New sexual partner or marriage	22 (8.4)
Simple curiosity	94 (40.2)
Risk sexual relation	7 (3)
Sickness	31 (13.2)
Death from HIV in the family	11 (4.7)
Being oriented by VCT client or health agent	9 (3.8)
Rape	6 (2.6)
Retesting (after a first test)	41 (17.5)
Other	13 (5.7)
Service requested during visit
Information	22 (9.4)
VCT	10 (4.3)
Information and VCT	202 (86.3)
HIV testing expected result by subjects
Negative	112 (48.1)
Positive	5 (2.1)
Do not know	116 (49.8)
HIV testing result
Negative	199 (85)
Positive	22 (9.4)
Undetermined	13 (5.6)
Previous HIV testing
No	100 (42.7)
Yes	134 (57.3)
Sexual relation 3 months before VCT
Yes	128 (54.7)
No	106 (45.3)
Use of condom
Never	116 (49.6)
Sometimes	116 (49.6)
Always	2 (0.8)
Confidence of HIV test (if positive) with
No body	37 (15.8)
Sexual partner	110 (47)
A family member	47 (20.1)
Pastor/priest	4 (1.7)
Other	36 (15.4)

VCT: Voluntary Counseling and Testing.