Sexual practices among men and women living with HIV-AIDS and diagnoses or symptoms of an STI in the past 3 months
| Men | Women | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No STI (n=186) | STI (n=42) | No STI (n=72) | STI (n=40) | ||||||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | p | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | p | pa | |
| Note: Numbers represent frequencies for behaviours reported during the past 3 months; p for differences within sex groups and pa for differences between STI groups collapsing across sexes. | |||||||||||
| Unprotected vaginal intercourse | 0.5 | 2.3 | 3.2 | 11.9 | 0.03 | 3.4 | 13.2 | 5.0 | 10.6 | ns | 0.01 |
| Vaginal intercourse with condoms | 1.0 | 5.7 | 1.1 | 2.8 | ns | 2.9 | 7.9 | 5.6 | 16.7 | ns | 0.03 |
| Total vaginal intercourse | 1.5 | 6.3 | 4.3 | 12.3 | 0.06 | 6.3 | 14.9 | 10.6 | 19.6 | ns | 0.01 |
| % vaginal protected | 64.0 | 40.1 | 62.0 | 41.3 | ns | 62.6 | 43.8 | 56.7 | 45.1 | ns | ns |
| Unprotected anal intercourse | 1.3 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 10.5 | .03 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ns | ns |
| Anal intercourse with condoms | 3.9 | 14.2 | 3.7 | 12.4 | ns | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ns | ns |
| Total anal intercourse | 5.2 | 15.2 | 7.4 | 22.4 | ns | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.4 | ns | ns |
| % anal protected | 68.3 | 34.7 | 50.6 | 36.8 | 0.05 | 58.3 | 49.2 | 33.3 | 57.7 | ns | 0.03 |
| Number of partners | 2.3 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 8.0 | ns | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.9 | ns | ns |