Frehywot Eshetu

PLOS ONE, Jul 2023 Introduction Youth (adolescents and young adults) aged 15–24 years comprise approximately 22% of Ethiopia’s total population and make up 0.73% of HIV cases in urban Ethiopia. However, only 63% of HIV-positive youth are aware of their HIV status. We describe the HIV testing behaviors of youth 15–24 years and determined the characteristics of those who were most likely to be tested for HIV within the past year.

Analysis All households and individuals within a dataset were assigned the location of the centroid of their respective survey EA, and then the centroid was randomly displaced within an area around the actual center of the EA [25]. Interpolation maps of HIV prevalence were created through ordinary kriging‥ Kriging is a statistical model that infers the dependence between pairs of points by examining all similarly distant pairs in the data [27].