Table 1: Acceptability of HIV self-test in college and university students population and key populations including men who have sex with men and professional and clandestine female sex workers living in Bangui (n = 3,484). The results are shown as number and percentage in brackets.

Adult student populationµ
(n = 1,782)		 Men who have sex with men
µµ
(n = 396)		 Female sex workersµµµ
(n = 1,306)
Official
(n = 881)		 Clandestine
(n = 425)
Female
(n = 945)		 Male
(n = 837)		 P£
between female and male 		Pupulengue
(n = 487)		 Kata
(n = 394)		 P£
between pupu-lengue and kata 		P£
between official and clandestine
FSW
Ever tested for HIV
in VCT (conventional centres for HIV counselling and testing) 		236 (25)$ 150 (18) 0.001 36
(9)		 205
(42)		 59
(15)		 < 0.001 102
(24)		 NS
Ever heard
of HIVST
before		 926 (98) 728 (87) < 0.001 305
(77)		 414
(85)		 394
(100)		 < 0.001 378
(89)		 NS
Willing to use HIVST
if it was available		 652 (69) 652 (78) 0.001 384
(97)		 463
(95)		 335
(85)		 < 0.001 315
(74)		 < 0.001
Pre-test counselling is necessary to HIVST 510
(54)		 226 (27) < 0.001 59
(15)		 122
(25)		 91
(23)		 NS 208
(49)		 < 0.001
Post-test counselling is necessary to HIVST 699
(74)		 795
(95)		 < 0.001 348
(88)		 472
(97)		 292
(74)		 < 0.001 378
(89)		 NS
Willing to buy HIVST 302 (32) 644 (77) < 0.001 364
(92)		 458
(94)		 83
(21)		 < 0.001 208
(49)		 < 0.001
Willing to test partner using to HIVST kits 491
(52)		 652 (78) < 0.001 384
(97)		 477 (98) 256
(65)		 < 0.001 230
(54)		 < 0.001

$Number (%); £ Statistical analysis were carried out using Pearson’s χ2 test. µThe students were recruited from recruited from 13 secondary schools and university places in Bangui; µµMSM were included at the Centre National de Référence des Infections Sexuellement Transmissibles et de la Thérapie Antirétrovirale for care, counselling and adapted intervention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections and possibly HIV infection, as described previously [31]; µµµFSW were included in a descriptive, quantitative, population-based cross-sectional survey to assess the typology of female commercial sex work in Bangui, as described previously [32]. Female sex worker: FSW; HIVST: HIV self-testing; MSM: Men who have sex with men; NS: Not significant