The association of HIV counseling and testing with HIV risk behaviors in a random population-based survey in Kisumu, Kenya.

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2011-05

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HIV testing has been promoted as a key HIV prevention strategy in low-resource settings, despite studies showing variable impact on risk behavior. We sought to examine rates of HIV testing and the association between testing and sexual risk behaviors in Kisumu, Kenya. Participants were interviewed about HIV testing and sexual risk behaviors. They then underwent HIV serologic testing. We found that 47% of women and 36% of men reported prior testing. Two-thirds of participants who tested HIV-positive in this study reported no prior HIV test. Women who had undergone recent testing were less likely to report high-risk behaviors than women who had never been tested; this was not seen among men. Although rates of HIV testing were higher than seen in previous studies, the majority of HIV-infected people were unaware of their status. Efforts should be made to increase HIV testing among this population.

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AIDS Serodiagnosis, Adolescent, Adult, Counseling, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, HIV Infections, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Kenya, Male, Middle Aged, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Population Surveillance, Prevalence, Risk Factors, Risk-Taking, Sexual Behavior, Surveys and Questionnaires, Voluntary Programs, Young Adult

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10.1007/s10461-009-9649-4

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Huchko, Megan J, Michele Montandon, Rosemary Nguti, Elizabeth A Bukusi and Craig R Cohen (2011). The association of HIV counseling and testing with HIV risk behaviors in a random population-based survey in Kisumu, Kenya. AIDS Behav, 15(4). pp. 718–724. 10.1007/s10461-009-9649-4 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/12718.

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Megan Justine Huchko

Hollier Family Associate Professor of Global Health

Megan Huchko, MD, MPH, holds a dual appointment as an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and the Duke Global Health Institute.  Dr. Huchko was an undergraduate at Duke before moving to New York City to complete medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and residency training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.  She completed her fellowship in Reproductive Infectious Disease the University of California, San Francisco, and was a faculty member there. 

Dr. Huchko practices as an ob/gyn generalist and specializes in cervical cancer prevention through her clinical work and global women’s health research.  Her research focuses on optimizing the diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer among vulnerable women in settings where health disparities occur. She has been working with the Family AIDS Care and Education Services (FACES) program in the Nyanza Province of western Kenya since 2006.  

She designed and implemented a cervical cancer screening and prevention (CCSP) program for HIV-infected women enrolled in care at FACES.  The CCSP program has provided a clinical resource, as well as a cohort to evaluate the epidemiology of cervical cancer among HIV-infected women, the feasibility of integrating cervical cancer prevention programs into HIV and general outpatient clinics, the safety of various diagnostic and treatment modalities, the efficacy of low-cost/low-resource screening modalities in HIV-infected women and provider and patient-level barriers and facilitators to uptake of cervical cancer prevention activities.  

Currently, she is carrying out several large studies in central Uganda and western Kenya to evaluate the optimal implementation strategy for HPV-based cervical cancer screening in rural settings.  At Duke, she leads the Center of Excellence in Global Women’s Health through the Global Health Institute and serves as Director for the Ob/Gyn Clinical Research Unit (CRU).

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