Effects of neighbourhood-level educational attainment on HIV prevalence among young women in Zambia

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Table 3 Multivariate analysis of HIV infection in young rural women aged 15–24 years

Variables	All women		Sexually active women only
	Underlying factors	With proximate factors	Underlying factors	With proximate factors
Cluster-level variables
Education¹
Low	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Middle	0.49 (0.20–1.21)	0.49 (0.20–1.21)	0.44 (0.18–1.11)	0.41 (0.16–1,06)
High	0.29 (0.09–0.87)	0.24 (0.09–0.87)	0.29 (0.09–0.90)	0.30 (0.10–0.93)
Individual-level variables
Education²
Low	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Middle	1.01 (0.42–2.40)	1.01 (0.42–2.40)	1.00(0.41–2.39)	0.97 (0.40–2.36)
High	1.37 (0.43–4.36)	1.37 (0.43–4,36)	1.25 (0.39–4.06)	1.35 (0.41–4.40)
Current student
Not student
Student	a	a	a	a
Ever married
Single	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Married	1.09 (0.36–3.35)	1.09 (0.36–3,35)	0.68 (0.23–2.06)	0.40 (0.13–1.26)
Ever had sex
No			-	-
Yes		a
Ever given birth
No				1.00
Yes				6.37 (1.24–32.7)
Number of lifetime sexual partners
0 partner⁵				-
1 partner				1.00
2 partners				1.05 (0.42–2.63)
≥ 3 partners				1.76 (0.67–4.61)

⁽¹⁾ Cluster level education is based on the mean years of educational attainment of the population in the neighbourhoods: rural: low (4.0–5.3), middle (5.4–6.5), high (6.6–9.5)
⁽²⁾ Individual level education categorization is as follows, rural: low (grade 0 – 4), middle (grade 5 – 7) & high (grade 8 and above).
⁽³⁾ CI, confidence interval
⁽⁴⁾ AOR, age-adjusted odds ratio
⁽⁵⁾ '0 partner' is equal to the number young women who have not had sexual intercourse
^a AOR could not be computed because the prevalence for one of the elements was zero.
Significant results are in bold (p < 0.05)

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