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Table 1 Household Data for Home-Based HIV Testing Participants

From: Feasibility and acceptability of home-based HIV testing among refugees: a pilot study in Nakivale refugee settlement in southwestern Uganda

Variable

Overall

Village 1

Village 2

Village 3

Country of origin of majority of participants

 

DRCa

Burundi

Rwanda

(% of HIV testing participants in village from this country)

 

78

71

74

Number households visited

319

108

114

97

Eligible individuals in households

566

206

184

176

Size of household, N (% of total households)

 0

27 (9)

10 (9)

12 (11)

5 (5)

 1

59 (19)

11 (10)

28 (25)

20 (21)

 2

203 (64)

71 (66)

68 (60)

64 (66)

 3

21 (7)

12 (11)

4 (4)

5 (5)

 4

7 (2)

3 (3)

2 (2)

2 (2)

 5

2 (1)

1 (1)

0 (0)

1 (1)

Encountered at home, N (% of eligible)

507 (90)

181 (88)

162 (88)

164 (93)

 Visit 1

353 (62)

119 (58)

112 (61)

122 (69)

 Visit 2

127 (22)

56 (27)

43 (23)

28 (16)

 Visit 3

27 (5)

6 (3)

7 (4)

14 (8)

HIV Tested, N (% of encountered)

378 (75)

161 (89)

103 (64)

114 (70)

 Visit 1

272 (77)

108 (92)

79 (71)

85 (70)

 Visit 2

93b (73)

49b (84)

24 (56)

20 (71)

 Visit 3

13c (44)

4 (57)

0 (0)

9 (64)

HIV-positive, N (% of tested)

7 (1.9)

4 (2.5)

3 (2.9)

0 (0)

  1. aDRC = The Democratic Republic of the Congo
  2. b2 testers encountered in visit 1 but consented to testing in Visit 2
  3. c1 tester encountered in visit 1 but consented to testing in Visit 3