| Literature DB >> 27502690 |
April L Kelley1, Ashley K Hagaman2,3, Kristin M Wall4,5,6, Etienne Karita7, William Kilembe1, Roger Bayingana7, Amanda Tichacek2,3, Michele Kautzman7, Susan A Allen2,3,7,1.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Many African adults do not know that partners in steady or cohabiting relationships can have different HIV test results. Despite WHO recommendations for couples' voluntary counseling and testing (CVCT), fewer than 10 % of couples have been jointly tested and counseled. We examine the roles and interactions of influential network leaders (INLs) and influential network agents (INAs) in promoting CVCT in Kigali, Rwanda and Lusaka, Zambia.Entities:
Keywords: Couples’ voluntary HIV counseling and testing; HIV education; HIV/AIDS; Health service promotion; Influential networks
Mesh:
Year: 2016 PMID: 27502690 PMCID: PMC4977827 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3424-z
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMC Public Health ISSN: 1471-2458 Impact factor: 3.295
Demographic characteristics of influential network agents and leaders by country
| INAs | INLs |
| |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rwanda % (n/N) or mean (SD) | Zambia % (n/N) or mean (SD) | Rwanda % (n/N) or mean (SD) | Zambia % (n/N) or mean (SD) | ||
| Gender | n/s | ||||
| Woman | 64 (21/33) | 55 (29/53) | 78 (21/27) | 71 (22/31) | |
| Man | 36 (12/33) | 45 (24/53) | 22 (6/27) | 29 (9/31) | |
| Age | 33 (7) | 39 (10) | 40 (9) | 46 (9) | *, **, ***, **** |
| Ever married | 82 (27/33) | 82 (42/52) | 89 (24/27) | 93 (27/29) | n/s |
| Job Type | n/s | ||||
| Professional/sales/service | 64 (21/33) | 67 (8/12) | 86 (24/28) | 81 (13/16) | |
| Unskilled manual/technical/other | 36 (12/33) | 33 (4/12) | 14 (4/28) | 19 (3/16) | |
| Ever tested for HIV | *** | ||||
| Yes, alone | 47 (15/32) | 20 (10/50) | 25 (7/28) | 23 (7/30) | |
| Yes, with spouse | 31 (10/32) | 24 (12/50) | 43 (12/28) | 23 (7/30) | |
| No testing reported | 22 (7/32) | 56 (28/50) | 32 (9/28) | 53 (16/30) | |
*Significant (p < 0.05) differences between INAs and INLs in Rwanda
**Significant (p < 0.05) differences between INAs and INLs in Zambia
***Significant (p < 0.05) differences between Rwandan and Zambian INAs
****Significant (p < 0.05) differences between Rwandan and Zambian INLs
Note: denominators are variable due to missing data
Working relationships between influential network agents and leaders by country
| Rwanda | Zambia | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-reported by INA | n/N | % | n/N | % |
| Relationship with INL | ||||
| Superior/Boss | 7/30 | 23 | 17/53 | 32 |
| Co-worker | 11/30 | 37 | 14/53 | 26 |
| Advisor | 7/30 | 23 | 6/53 | 11 |
| Religious Group Member | 1/30 | 3 | 7/53 | 13 |
| Friend | 3/30 | 10 | 5/53 | 9 |
| Relative | 1/30 | 3 | 2/53 | 4 |
| No relationship | 0/30 | 0 | 2/53 | 4 |
| Met with INL in past month | 29/32 | 91 | 43/53 | 81 |
| Number of times INA met with INL in past month, mean (SD) | 7 | (8) | 7 | (7) |
| Number of minutes INA and INL met, mean (SD) | 32 | (19) | 45 | (37) |
| Help received from INL | ||||
| A lot | 11/31 | 35 | 22/53 | 42 |
| Some | 9/31 | 29 | 11/53 | 21 |
| A little | 6/31 | 19 | 9/53 | 17 |
| None | 5/31 | 16 | 11/53 | 21 |
| Believe INL is necessary to their work | 28/31 | 90 | 40/53 | 75 |
| Self-reported by INL | ||||
| Met with INA in past month | 25/28 | 89 | 30/31 | 97 |
| Number of times INL met with INA in past month | 6 | (5) | 8 | (7) |
| Number of minutes INA and INL met* | 29 | (21) | 50 | (44) |
| Number of INAs worked with* | 2 | (1) | 3 | (2) |
| Help given to INA | ||||
| A lot | 7/18 | 39 | 18/31 | 58 |
| Some | 9/18 | 50 | 12/31 | 39 |
| A little | 1/18 | 6 | 1/31 | 3 |
| None | 1/18 | 6 | 0/31 | 0 |
*p < 0.05
CVCT promotional efforts by influential network agents and leaders by country
| INAs | INLs |
| |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rwanda % (n/N) or mean (SD) | Zambia % (n/N) or mean (SD) | Rwanda % (n/N) or mean (SD) | Zambia % (n/N) or mean (SD) | ||
| Number hours per week promoting CVCT | 28 (18) | 18 (9) | 5 (5) | 10 (6) | *, **, ***, **** |
| Gave endorsement to group in past month | 97 (32/33) | 77 (41/53) | 96 (27/28) | 100 (31/31) | **, *** |
| Number of group endorsements in past month | 2 (1) | 4 (5) | 6 (7) | 10 (18) | *, *** |
| Number of attendees to group endorsements | 38 (33) | 55 (45) | 101 (194) | 102 (107) | ** |
| Number of INAs present at public endorsements |
|
| 4 (5) | 8 (10) | **** |
| Spoke to community leader in past month | 88 (29/33) | 79 (42/53) | 89 (25/28) | 81 (25/31) | n/s |
| Number of community leaders spoken to in past month | 4 (3) | 5 (5) | 10 (13) | 14 (13) | *, ** |
| Public endorsement audience | *, ***, **** | ||||
| All public endorsement audiences | 3 (1/30) | 43 (17/40) | 37 (10/27) | 61 (19/31) | |
| Couples | 63 (19/30) | 10 (4/40) | 26 (7/27) | 3 (1/31) | |
| Married women | 13 (4/30) | 40 (16/40) | 11 (3/27) | 32 (10/31) | |
| Married men | 3 (1/30) | 5 (2/40) | 0 (0/27) | 3 (1/31) | |
| Men and Women (Not in relationships) | 17 (5/30) | 3 (1/40) | 26 (7/27) | 0 (0/31) | |
*Significant (p < 0.05) differences between INAs and INLs in Rwanda
**Significant (p < 0.05) differences between INAs and INLs in Zambia
***Significant (p < 0.05) differences between Rwandan and Zambian INAs
****Significant (p < 0.05) differences between Rwandan and Zambian INLs
Note: denominators are variable due to missing data
CVCT Clients’ sources of information about CVCT
| Rwanda ( | Zambia ( | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In a group | One-on-one | Had not heard | In a group | One-on-one | Had not heard | |
| Heard about CVCT from (community members)... | % | % | % | % | % | % |
| INA | 2.3 | 35.8 | 61.9 | 0.5 | 71.0 | 28.5 |
| INL | 0.1 | 0.8 | 99.2 | 0.2 | 3.4 | 96.5 |
| Other ZEHRP staff | 0.03 | 3.6 | 96.4 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 97.8 |
| Friends | 0.2 | 12.2 | 87.7 | 0.2 | 15.3 | 84.5 |
| Family | 0.03 | 4.5 | 95.5 | 0.0 | 6.1 | 93.9 |
| Couple previously tested at ZEHRP | 0.1 | 59.4 | 40.5 | 0.1 | 12.0 | 88.0 |
| Other | 0.1 | 16.1 | 83.8 | 1.8 | 8.8 | 89.4 |
| Heard about CVCT from (media)… | % | % | ||||
| Radio | 52.8 | 26.8 | ||||
| Television | 3.7 | 18.0 | ||||
| Poster | 33.0 | 3.5 | ||||
| Newspaper | 2.1 | 3.3 | ||||
| ZEHRP Brochure | 1.2 | 4.9 | ||||
| Other brochure | 0.2 | 1.4 | ||||
| Other | 6.6 | 9.8 | ||||
Percentages may not equal 100 due to rounding