HEALTH STATUS - Reproductive Health

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HIV Testing

The proportion of adults ever tested for HIV was fairly constant between 1997 and 2000, ranging between 30.2 percent and 32.3 percent. In 2000, young women were more likely to have been tested than older women. Approximately half of women under age 45 had been tested compared to 21.6 percent of women aged 45-64 and 6.5 percent of women aged 65 and older.

For adults aged 18-44, women were more likely than men to have ever been tested for HIV, but this trend was reversed for adults aged 45 and older, with men more likely than women to have ever been tested.

Percentage of adults aged 18 years and older who have been tested for HIV: 18-24 years: men: 24.7%, women: 43.5%, total: 34.2%; 25-34 years: men: 42.7%, women: 59.2%, total: 51.2%; 35-44 years: men: 40.7%, women: 43.6%, total: 42.2%; 45-64 years: men: 24.5%, women: 21.6%, total: 24.5%; 65+ years: men: 12.1%, women: 6.5%, total: 8.9%.

 

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