Male circumcision programmes in Kenya: lessons from the Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey 2007
Zebedee Mwandi, Rebecca Bunnell, Peter Cherutich, Jonathan Mermin, Andrea A Kim, Anthony Gichangi, Patrick Mureithi, Timothy A Kellogg, Tom Oluoch, James Muttunga, Carol Ngare, Evelyn Kim & Reinhard Kaiser
Volume 90, Number 9, September 2012, 642-651
Table 2. Male population aged 15–64 years in Kenya, by province, circumcision status and HIV infection status, 2007
| Province | No. of m en aged 15–64 yearsa | % male circumcision rateb | No. of circumcised men aged 15–64 years | No. of uncircumcised men aged 15–64 years | HIV infection in uncircumcised men aged 15–64 yearsc |
No. of uncircumcised, HIV-infected men aged 15–64 years | Uncircumcised, HIV-uninfected men aged 15–64 years |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of HIV-infected men/ total no.d | % (95% CI) | No. | Uncertainty bounde | ||||||||
| Nairobi | 1 009 000 | 83.2 | 839 488 | 169 512 | 21/122 | 20.2 (12.8–27.5) | 34 241 | 135 271 | 122 896–147 814 | ||
| Central | 1 160 000 | 95.5 | 1 107 800 | 52 200 | 0/43 | 0 (NA) | 0 | NA | NA | ||
| Coast | 759 000 | 97.0 | 736 230 | 22 770 | 5/24 | 15.3 (6.9–23.6) | 3 461 | 19 309 | 17 396–21 199 | ||
| Eastern | 1 380 000 | 96.3 | 1 328 940 | 51 060 | 1/49 | 0.9 (0.0–2.6) | 511 | 50 549 | 49 732–51 060 | ||
| North-Eastern | 361 000 | 97.3 | 351 253 | 9 747 | 1/9 | 7.2 (0.0–18.5) | 692 | 9 055 | 7 944–9 747 | ||
| Nyanza | 1 408 000 | 48.2 | 678 656 | 729 344 | 96/501 | 17.3 (13.3–21.2) | 127 635 | 601 709 | 572 535–632 341 | ||
| Rift Valley | 2 242 000 | 88.7 | 1 988 654 | 253 346 | 12/112 | 7.0 (2.0–11.9) | 17 658 | 235 688 | 223 198–248 279 | ||
| Western | 1 000 000 | 87.8 | 878 000 | 122 000 | 8/119 | 6.8 (2.0–11.6) | 8 308 | 113 692 | 107 848–119 560 | ||
| Total | 9 319 000 | 85.0 | 7 909 021 | 1 409 997 | 144/979 | 13.2 (10.8–15.7) | 186 120 | 1 223 877 | 1 188 627–1 257 717 | ||
CI, confidence interval; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; NA, not applicable.
a Estimated using data from the Kenyan 1999 Population and Household Census.
b Derived from the Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey 2007.
c Derived from the Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey 2007.
d The number of HIV-infected, uncircumcised men and the total number of uncircumcised men were those included in the Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey 2007 for each province.
e The uncertainty bounds were based on the 95% confidence intervals from the Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey 2007.