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Table 2 Health and health care related factors of respondents at Mekelle Hospital, Northern Ethiopia

From: HIV disclosure to sexual partner and associated factors among women attending ART clinic at Mekelle hospital, Northern Ethiopia

Variables

Number

Percent

Time to know your HIV sero positive

<=2 years

124

39.4

>2 years

191

60.6

Place of test for HIV

ANC

78

24.8

Delivery

24

7.6

VCT

157

49.8

Providing is initiating counseling and testing

56

17.8

Discussion before test with partner

Yes

99

31.4

No

216

68.6

Relationship before test with partner

Smooth

218

69.2

Disagreement

97

30.8

Initiating factor to test for HIV

Becoming sick

169

53.5

Others*

146

46.5

Duration of follow up in ART or pre ART service

<=2 years

140

44.4

>2 years

175

55.6

History of Hospital admission in the last 12 months

Yes

60

19.0

No

255

81.0

Current category of respondents

Pre-ART Rx

45

14.3

ART Rx

270

85.7

Initiating ART is important for disclosure

Yes

253

80.3

No

62

19.7

Regular sexual partner in the last 12 months (n = 315)

No

130

41.3

Yes

185

57.7

Live in the same house with regular sexual partner (n = 185)

Yes

157

85

No

28

15

Numbers of years lived with sexual partner (n = 157)

<=1 year

23

14.6

>1 year

134

85.4

  1. *Friends, family and health professionals.