Demographic characteristics and HIV risk behaviour history among participants from a black township in Cape Town who have and have not been tested for HIV
Tested | Not tested for HIV (n = 266) | Adjusted | |||||||
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Results | |||||||||
Known (n = 117) | Unknown (n = 86) | ||||||||
No | % | No | % | No | % | OR* | OR† | ||
*OR = odds ratios for people tested for HIV compared to people not tested; †OR = odds ratios for comparisons of people who have been tested with known results to people tested with unknown results; All odds ratios adjusted for age, years of education, sex, and survey venue; ap<0.01; bp<0.05; ‡reported for the past 3 months. | |||||||||
Demographic characteristics | |||||||||
Male | 58 | 52 | 41 | 47 | 110 | 41 | 1.2 | 1.4 | |
Female | 54 | 48 | 46 | 53 | 156 | 59 | |||
Age | 25 and younger | 51 | 45 | 30 | 35 | 137 | 52 | 0.9 | 1.1 |
26 to 35 | 39 | 35 | 38 | 45 | 53 | 20 | |||
36 to 45 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 48 | 18 | |||
46 and over | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 23 | 10 | |||
Race | African | 110 | 99 | 82 | 94 | 264 | 99 | 0.5 | 3.5 |
Other | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | |||
Years of education (mean, SD) | 8.6 | 1.2 | 8.5 | 1.2 | 8.2 | 1.3 | 0.8a | 0.9 | |
Employed | 50 | 46 | 37 | 43 | 91 | 35 | 1.4 | 1.5 | |
Married | 37 | 33 | 37 | 43 | 81 | 31 | 1.0 | 0.6 | |
Risk history factors | |||||||||
Two or more sex partners‡ | 42 | 38 | 46 | 53 | 107 | 40 | 1.0 | 1.1 | |
Received money, food for sex | 7 | 6 | 17 | 20 | 33 | 13 | 0.8 | 0.2a | |
Given money, food for sex | 9 | 8 | 13 | 15 | 22 | 8 | 1.2 | 0.4b | |
Has been diagnosed with an STD | 45 | 40 | 40 | 48 | 74 | 28 | 1.7a | 0.8 | |
Genital ulcer | 17 | 15 | 11 | 13 | 33 | 13 | 1.0 | 1.1 | |
Has injected drugs | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 7 | 0.3b | 0.2 | |
Has had an injection drug using sex partner | 9 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 31 | 12 | 0.6 | 1.0 | |
Never used a condom | 8 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 70 | 26 | 5.6a | 0.6 |