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Table 1 Characteristics of female sex workers living with HIV by site of recruitment in Cameroon, 2015–2016 (n = 481)

From: Predictors of early childhood HIV testing among children of sex workers living with HIV in Cameroon

 

Overall

n = 481

Yaoundé

n = 120

Douala

n = 122

Bertoua

n = 61

Bamenda

n = 101

Kribi

n = 77

p-value

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

 

ANC attendance at last pregnancy

      

< 0.001

No, did not attend

75 (15.6%)

20 (16.7%)

35 (28.7%)

4 (6.6%)

3 (3.0%)

13 (16.9%)

 

Attended

406 (84.4%)

100 (83.3%)

87 (71.3%)

57 (93.4%)

98 (97.0%)

64 (83.1%)

 

Age, years

 18–24

43 (8.9%)

6 (5.0%)

6 (4.9%)

15 (24.6%)

6 (5.9%)

10 (13.0%)

< 0.001

 25–34

182 (37.9%)

46 (38.3%)

39 (32.0%)

28 (45.9%)

29 (28.7%)

40 (52.0%)

 

 35+

256 (53.2%)

68 (56.7%)

77 (63.1%)

18 (29.5%)

66 (65.4%)

27 (35.0%)

 

Education completeda

 Primary or less

217 (45.2%)

38 (31.7%)

60 (49.2%)

22 (36.7%)

68 (67.3%)

29 (37.7%)

< 0.001

 Some secondary

237 (49.4%)

74 (61.7%)

57 (46.7%)

36 (60.0%)

25 (24.8%)

25 (58.4%)

 

 Secondary or more

26 (5.4%)

8 (6.6%)

5 (4.1%)

2 (3.3%)

8 (7.9%)

3 (3.9%)

 

Monthly income

  ≤ 100,000 XAF

329 (68.4%)

87 (72.5%)

47 (38.5%)

39 (63.9%)

99 (98.0%)

57 (74.0%)

< 0.001

  > 100,000 XAF

152 (31.6%)

33 (27.5%)

75 (61.5%)

22 (36.1%)

2 (2.0%)

20 (26.0%)

 

Years selling sex

 0–2 years

109 (22.7%)

24 (20.0%)

24 (19.6%)

21 (34.4%)

10 (9.9%)

30 (39.0%)

< 0.001

 3–9 years

228 (47.4%)

60 (50.0%)

70 (57.4%)

20 (47.5%)

35 (34.7%)

34 (44.1%)

 

 10+ years

144 (29.9%)

36 (30.0%)

28 (23.0%)

11 (18.0%)

56 (55.4%)

13 (16.9%)

 

Awareness of HIV status

 No awareness of status

230 (47.8%)

56 (46.7%)

49 (40.2%)

36 (59.0%)

34 (33.7%)

55 (71.4%)

< 0.001

 Aware of status

251 (52.2%)

64 (53.3%)

73 (59.8%)

25 (41.0%)

67 (66.3%)

22 (28.6%)

 

Number of living children

 One

132 (27.4%)

28 (23.3%)

43 (35.3%)

13 (21.3%)

21 (20.8%)

27 (35.0%)

0.02

 Two

145 (30.2%)

47 (39.2%)

28 (23.0%)

19 (31.2%)

27 (26.7%)

24 (31.2%)

 

 More than two

204 (42.4%)

45 (37.5%)

51 (41.7%)

29 (47.5%)

53 (52.5%)

26 (33.8%)

 

Future pregnancy intentions

 None

267 (55.5%)

55 (45.8%)

81 (66.4%)

36 (59.0%)

68 (67.3%)

27 (35.1%)

< 0.001

 Want more children

214 (44.5%)

65 (54.2%)

41 (33.6%)

25 (41.0%)

33 (32.7%)

50 (64.9%)

 

Network sizeb

Mean

13.4

14.4

20.3

13.8

9.7

5.3

< 0.001

Standard deviation

22.3

25.5

29.7

19.8

12.5

6.3

 
  1. aData missing on education (n = 1). Bolded results represent results that are statistically significant at least at the p < 0.05 level
  2. bSignificant differences calculated using Bartlett’s test for equal variances. To get at network size, women were asked “how many female sex workers have you met in the past week?”