Barriers to and facilitators of HIV serostatus disclosure to sexual partners among postpartum women living with HIV in South Africa

Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of study participants

Variables	Unweighted frequency	Unweighted proportions	Weighted frequencies	Weighted proportions
All	485	100	486	100
Age
24 years and less	36	7.4	112	23.0
25–29 years	114	23.5	131	27.0
30–34 years	144	29.7	130	26.7
35–39 years	123	25.4	86	17.7
40 years and above	68	14.0	27	5.6
Marital status
Single	359	74.0	384	78.9
Married	126	26.0	102	21.1
Education level
Grade 7 and less	30	6.2	21	4.3
Grade 8–12	421	86.8	431	88.6
Higher education	34	7.0	34	7.1
Employed in a salary paying job
Yes	157	32.4	139	28.7
No	328	67.6	347	71.3
Occupation in last 12 months
Government employee	17	3.5	14	2.8
Non-government employee	114	23.5	103	21.2
Self-employed	29	6.0	26	5.4
Student	23	4.7	44	9.1
Unemployed	302	62.3	299	61.5
Receives government social grant
Yes	453	93.6	451	92.9
No	31	6.4	35	7.1
Smoked in the past month
Yes	43	8.9	46	9.4
No	442	91.1	440	90.6
Drank alcohol in the past month
Yes	173	35.7	307	63.2
No	312	64.3	179	36.8
Knows partner’s serostatus
Yes	319	65.8	317	65.2
No	166	34.2	169	34.8
Year since HIV diagnosis
1–5 years	206	42.5	259	53.2
6–10 years	163	33.6	145	29.8
11–17 years	116	23.9	83	17.0
Complete adherence
Yes	310	63.9	285	58.6
No	175	36.1	201	41.4

Source: Exit interview of the East London Prospective Cohort Study done (2018)

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