ArticleAIDS and behavior2016
Comparing Perceptions with Actual Reports of Close Friend's HIV Testing Behavior Among Urban Tanzanian Men.
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Microfinance and Health Intervention Trial for Youth in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
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- The social network context of HIV stigma: Population-based, sociocentric network study in rural Uganda.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2019Article
- Social norms, misperceptions, and mosquito net use: a population-based, cross-sectional study in rural Uganda.Malaria journal · 2019Article
- Who Has Yet to Test? A Risk Score for Predicting Never Having Tested for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Among Women and Men in Rural Malawi.Sexually transmitted diseases · 2019Article
- Actual Versus Perceived HIV Testing Norms, and Personal HIV Testing Uptake: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Study in Rural Uganda.AIDS and behavior · 2018Article
- Peer norms moderate the association between mental health and sexual risk behaviors among young men living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2018Article
- Measuring personal beliefs and perceived norms about intimate partner violence: Population-based survey experiment in rural Uganda.PLoS medicine · 2017Article
- Social Network Influence on HIV Testing Among Urban Men in Tanzania.AIDS and behavior · 2017Article
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Abstract
Men have lower rates of HIV testing and higher rates of AIDS-related mortality compared to women in sub-Saharan Africa. To assess whether there is an opportunity to increase men's uptake of testing by correcting misperceptions about testing norms, we compare men's perceptions of their closest friend's HIV testing behaviors with the friend's actual testing self-report using a unique dataset of men sampled within their social networks (n = 59) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. We examine the accuracy and bias of perceptions among men who have tested for HIV (n = 391) and compare them to the perceptions among men who never tested (n = 432). We found that testers and non-testers did not differ in the accuracy of their perceptions, though non-testers were strongly biased towards assuming that their closest friends had not tested. Our results lend support to social norms approaches designed to correct the biased misperceptions of non-testers to promote men's HIV testing.
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