Table 3 Past HIV self-test experience, post-test health services utilization, and potential harms of HIV self-testing among Chinese female sex workers
Attributes | HIV self-tester (n = 103, %) |
|---|---|
Characteristics of self-testing | 103 |
Location where self-test kit was obtained | Â |
 Community-based organization | 78 (75.7) |
 Online drug store | 23 (22.3) |
 Hospital | 21 (20.4) |
 Friend | 13 (12.6) |
 Pharmacy | 8 (7.8) |
Self-testing results (last self-test) | Â |
 Reactive | 8 (7.8) |
 Not sure | 3 (2.9) |
 Negative | 92 (89.3) |
 Post-test actions | 11 |
 Sought care following reactive/uncertain self-testing result | 9 (81.8) |
Time since reactive/uncertain self-testing result to seeking care | 9 |
 0–2 weeks | 6 (66.7) |
 2–4 weeks | - |
 1–3 months | 3 (33.3) |
 > 3 months | - |
Location for seeking care | 9 |
 General hospital | 2 (22.2) |
 Specialist STI service | 3 (33.3) |
 Center for Disease Control and Prevention | 2 (22.2) |
 Pharmacy/Online counseling/others | 2 (22.2) |
Benefits | 103 |
 Self-test as their first-time test | 61 (59.2) |
 Gave a self-test kit to a client | 13 (12.6) |
 Sold a self-test kit to a client | 3 (2.9) |
 Increased testing uptake after first self-test | 31 (30.1) |
Adverse events | 103 |
 Self-testing influenced sex pricing negotiation | 22 (21.4) |
 Police kept self-test kits as the evidence to accuse you of selling sex | 3 (2.9) |
 Pressured self-testing | 7 (6.8) |
Types of pressure | 103 |
 Physical violence | 1 (1.0) |
 Threats of violence | 2 (1.9) |
 Verbal abuse | 2 (1.9) |
 Psychological pressure | 3 (2.9) |
 Excessive control of activities | 2 (1.9) |
 Withholding of household resources | 2 (1.9) |
 Threatening to end a relationship | 3 (2.9) |