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Table 1 Response rates (%), samples size and prevalence of HIV/AIDS (%) by gender, country and survey year

From: What explains gender inequalities in HIV/AIDS prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from the demographic and health surveys

 

Survey year

Age range (years)

Response rates (%)a

Women

Men

Gender inequality in HIV/AIDS prevalence

Countries

 

Women

Men

 

nb

HIV +c

Prevalence1 (%)d

nb

HIV +c

Prevalence (%)d

Women-Men

p-valuee

Burkina Faso (BF)

2003

15–49

15–59

89

4189

84

1.82

3341

59

1.95

−0.13

0.713

2010

15–49

15–59

95

8346

100

1.18

7034

60

0.84

0.34

0.086

Cameroon (CM)

2004

15–49

15–59

91.34

5154

349

6.63

5041

203

3.92

2.71

<0.001

2011

15–49

15–59

93

7253

434

5.57

6945

215

2.89

2.69

<0.001

Congo Brazzaville (CG)

2009

15–49

15–49

97.6

6349

240

4.13

5760

134

2.06

2.07

<0.001

Côte d’Ivoire (CI)

2005

15–49

15–49

78

4547

247

6.21

3917

110

3.11

3.1

<0.001

Ethiopia (ET)

2005

15–49

15–59

79

5942

142

1.86

5107

70

0.91

0.95

0.003

2011

15–49

15–59

85.75

15505

358

1.86

12998

182

0.98

0.88

<0.001

Ghana (GH)

2003

15–49

15–59

85

5289

138

2.71

4265

68

1.63

1.08

<0.001

Guinea (GN)

2005

15–49

15–59

91

3842

68

1.89

2925

35

1.1

0.79

0.010

Liberia (LR)

2005

15–49

15–49

84

6482

147

1.91

5206

62

1.23

0.68

0.008

Malawi (MW)

2004

15–49

15–54

67

2864

421

13.32

2404

243

10.23

3.09

0.002

2010

15–49

15–54

87

7396

890

12.88

6509

530

8.39

4.5

<0.001

Mali (ML)

2006

15–49

15–59

88

4743

69

1.54

3886

38

1.11

0.44

0.109

Mozambique (MZ)

2009

15–64

15–64

91

5901

875

12.67

4404

442

9.04

3.63

<0.001

Niger (NE)

2006

15–49

15–59

88

4441

39

0.71

3232

33

0.71

0

0.974

D.R. Congo (CD)

2007

15–49

15–59

88

4632

81

1.62

4304

43

0.92

0.7

0.027

Rwanda (RW)

2005

15–49

15–59

96.5

5663

222

3.61

4728

115

2.2

1.41

<0.001

2010

15–49

15–59

98

6952

266

3.71

6296

154

2.41

1.3

<0.001

Sao Tome & Principe (ST)

2008/2009

15–49

15–59

--

2550

37

1.29

2160

39

1.8

−0.5

0.215

Senegal (SN)

2005

15–49

15–59

80

4466

48

0.88

3250

16

0.44

0.44

0.009

2011

15–49

15–59

80

5590

61

0.83

4327

32

0.51

0.32

0.071

Sierra Leone (SL)

2008

15–49

15–59

86

3466

64

1.73

3009

32

1.16

0.57

0.068

Swaziland (SZ)

2006/2007

15–49

15–49

85

4584

1438

31.15

3602

704

19.7

11.45

<0.001

Uganda (UG)

2011

15–59

15–59

96

11967

944

8.21

9399

551

6.11

2.1

<0.001

Zambia (ZM)

2007

15–49

15–59

75

5713

947

16.09

5161

649

12.29

3.8

<0.001

Zimbabwe (ZW)

2005/2006

15–49

15–54

70

7494

1553

21.12

5555

782

14.75

6.37

<0.001

2010/2011

15–49

15–54

75

7852

1463

17.71

6045

811

12.45

5.05

<0.001

  1. Note: n sample size
  2. aMore information on response rates is available at the following link: http://www.measuredhs.com/What-We-Do/survey-search.cfm?pgtype=main&SrvyTp=country
  3. bNumbers of women and men in the sample. These frequencies are unweighted numbers
  4. cNumbers of women and men with HIV positive test. These frequencies are unweighted numbers
  5. dA Weighted percentage of persons with HIV positive test among women and men using sampling weights provided by the DHS and AIS
  6. ep-value based on Chi-squared test for the difference in HIV/AIDS prevalence between women and men
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