Equity in HIV testing : evidence from a crosssectional study in ten Southern African countries

HIV testing programmes need to encourage people at higher risk of HIV to get tested. Across the 10 countries surveyed, seven out of ten people (71%) said they planned to have an HIV test but only 38% had been tested in the last 12 months. Service providers need to recognise that some people are not able to implement HIV preventive actions and may not feel empowered to get tested. The survey comprised 24,069 people in nationally stratified random samples of communities in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe