Table 1 Sexual and HIV profile of respondents by self reported HIV status and sex (N = 1574)
Variables | HIV status | Total (%) N = 1574 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Self-reported HIV Negative N = 151 | Self-reported HIV status unknown (N = 969) | Self-reported HIV positive N = 454 | |||||||||||
Untested (N = 663) | Recruited as HIV positive (N = 306) | ||||||||||||
Male n = 68 | Female n = 83 | P value | Male n =368 | Female n =295 | P value | Male n =134 | Female n =172 | P value | Male n =221 | Female n = 233 | p value | ||
History of sexual intercourse | |||||||||||||
Yes | 32 (47.1) | 39 (47.0) | 90 (24.5) | 62 (21.0) | 16 (11.9) | 27 (15.7) | 78 (35.3) | 92 (39.5) | 436 (27.7) | ||||
No | 36 (52.9) | 44 (53.0) | 0.99 | 278 (75.4) | 233 (79.0) | 0.30 | 118 (89.1) | 145 (84.3) | 0.35 | 143 (64.7) | 141 (60.5) | 0.36 | 1138 (72.3) |
Mean age (± SD) at sexual debut | |||||||||||||
Mean age | 15.48 ± 1.8 | 15.15 ± 1.9 | 0.50 | 14.84 ± 2.2 | 14.00 ± 1.9 | 0.03 | 14.87 ± 2.0 | 12.94 ± 3.2 | 0.053 | 15.42 ± 1.6 | 14.76 ± 1.6 | 0.01 | 14.79 ± 2.0 |
Intake of alcohol | |||||||||||||
Yes | 23 (33.8) | 20 (24.1) | 77 (20.9) | 74 (25.1) | 26 (19.4) | 35 (20.3) | 53 (24.0) | 54 (23.2) | 362 (23.0) | ||||
No | 45 (66.2) | 63 (75.9) | 0.21 | 291 (79.1) | 221 (74.9) | 0.23 | 108 (81.6) | 137 (79.7) | 0.89 | 168 (76.0) | 179 (76.8) | 0.84 | 1212 (77.0) |
Use of psychoactive drugs | |||||||||||||
No drug use | 66 (97.1) | 76 (91.6) | 348 (94.6) | 278 (94.2) | 130 (97.0) | 169 (98.3) | 209 (94.6) | 215 (92.3) | 1491 (94.7) | ||||
Use of drug(s) | 2 (2.9) | 7 (8.4) | 0.14 | 20 (5.4) | 17 (5.8) | 0.86 | 4 (3.0) | 3 (1.9) | 0.70 | 12 (5.4) | 18 (7.7) | 0.33 | 93 (5.5) |
History of STI | |||||||||||||
Yes | 42 (61.8) | 45 (54.2) | 180 (48.9) | 152 (51.5) | 61 (45.5) | 90 (50.3) | 125 (56.6) | 118 (50.6) | 813 (51.7) | ||||
No | 26 (38.2) | 38 (45.8) | 0.93 | 188 (51.1) | 143 (48.5) | 0.50 | 73 (54.5) | 82 (49.7) | 0.24 | 96 (43.4) | 115 (49.4) | 0.21 | 761 (48.3) |
Knowledge of HIV transmission | |||||||||||||
Good | 47 (69.1) | 70 (84.3) | 152 (41.3) | 119 (40.3) | 32 (23.9) | 30 (17.4) | 113 (51.1) | 133 (57.1) | 696 (44.2) | ||||
Poor | 21 (30.9) | 13 (15.7) | *0.03 | 216 (58.7) | 176 (59.7) | 0.80 | 102 (76.1) | 142 (82.6) | 0.16 | 108 (48.9) | 100 (42.9) | 0.20 | 878 (55.8) |
Knowledge of HIV prevention | |||||||||||||
Good | 52 (76.5) | 65 (78.3) | 177 (48.1) | 157 (53.2) | 22 (16.4) | 28 (16.3) | 117 (52.9) | 133 (57.1) | 751 (47.7) | ||||
Poor | 16 (23.5) | 18 (21.7) | 0.79 | 191 (51.9) | 138 (46.8) | 0.19 | 112 (83.6) | 144 (83.7) | 0.97 | 104 (47.1) | 100 (42.9) | 0.38 | 823 (52.3) |
Awareness about condom | |||||||||||||
Yes | 44 (64.7) | 59 (71.1) | 212 (57.6) | 179 (60.7) | 80 (59.7) | 108 (62.8) | 147 (66.5) | 143 (61.4) | 972 (61.8) | ||||
No | 24 (35.3) | 24 (28.9) | 0.47 | 156 (42.4) | 116 (29.3) | 0.43 | 54 (40.3) | 64 (37.2) | 0.58 | 74 (33.5) | 90 (38.6) | 0.25 | 602 (38.2) |
Knowledge of where to obtain condom | |||||||||||||
Yes | 9 (13.2) | 17 (20.5) | 43 (11.7) | 30 (10.2) | 29 (21.6) | 25 (14.5) | 30 (13.6) | 29 (12.4) | 212 (13.5) | ||||
No | 59 (86.8) | 66 (79.5) | 0.24 | 325 (88.3) | 265 (89.8) | 0.54 | 105 (78.4) | 147 (85.5) | 0.11 | 191 (86.4) | 204 (87.6) | 0.72 | 1362 (86.5) |