HIV status disclosure and care engagement in rural Kenya and Uganda_2022

We sought to explore experiences with and correlates of disclosure among people living with HIV (PLHIV) participating in a study of population mobility. Survey data were collected from 1081 PLHIV from 2015-16 in 12 communities in Kenya and Uganda participating in a test-and-treat trial (SEARCH, NCT#01864603). Pooled and sex-stratified multiple logistic regression models examined associations of disclosure with risk behaviors controlling for covariates and community clustering. The dataset contains socio-demographic variables (including age, sex, educational attainment, marital status, and occupational HIV risk categories), migration and mobility patterns (any migration in the past 5 years, any past 1 year and past 2 year migration, any past 6 month work travel, any past 6 month non-work travel, any past 6 month overnight travel), sexual behavior variables (any condom use in the past 6 months, any higher-risk partnerships between 2015-2016, and any concurrent partnerships in the past 6 months), and HIV care engagement variables (currently receiving HIV care, ever enrolled in antiretroviral (ART) program, currently taking ART, attending a clinic for HIV care, and ever missed appointments/dropped out of care). Among those who had disclosed their HIV status, the dataset contains variables that capture the types of individuals to whom PLHIV first disclosed their HIV status, other people to whom PLHIV would like to disclose their HIV status, but felt they could not, and reasons for not disclosing further. Among those who had not disclosed their HIV status, the dataset contains variables that capture the reasons for non-disclosure.