Table 3: Comparison of HIV risky behaviors before and after awareness of status in sero-positives and sero-negatives/sero-ignorants.
Risky behaviors | Sero-positives | Sero-negatives/sero-ignorants | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Before awareness | After awareness | P-value | Before awareness | After awareness | P-value | ||
Condom usage | Never | 62 (39.2%) | 24 (16.1%) | 0.002 | 22 (15.3%) | 28 (18.9%) | 0.000 |
Often | 85 (53.8%) | 63 (42.3%) | 77 (53.5%) | 70 (47.3%) | |||
Always | 11 (7.0%) | 62 (41.6%) | 45 (31.3%) | 50 (33.8%) | |||
Total | 158 (100.0%) | 149 (100.0%) | 144 (100.0%) | 148 (100.0%) | |||
Number of sexual partners | No partner | 2 (1.3%) | 22 (13.8%) | 0.001 | 17 (10.8%) | 16 (10.1%) | 0.000 |
1 partner | 65 (40.6%) | 93 (58.1%) | 95 (60.1%) | 125 (79.1%) | |||
2 partners | 50 (31.3%) | 29 (18.1%) | 31 (19.6%) | 14 (8.9%) | |||
3-4 partners | 30 (18.8%) | 12 (7.5%) | 13 (8.2%) | 3 (1.9%) | |||
5-9 partners | 4 (2.5%) | 2 (1.3%) | 1 (0.6%) | 0 (00%) | |||
≥ 10 partners | 9 (5.6%) | 2 (1.3%) | 1 (0.6%) | 0 (00%) | |||
Total | 160 (100.0%) | 160 (100.0%) | 158 (100.0%) | 158 (100.0%) | |||
Frequency of sex | Per day | 9 (6.0%) | 3 (2.0%) | 0.000 | 2 (1.5%) | 3 (2.1%) | 0.000 |
Per week | 89 (59.7%) | 63 (41.2%) | 63 (46.0%) | 59 (41.8%) | |||
Per month | 50 (33.6%) | 64 (41.8%) | 69 (50.4%) | 75 (53.2%) | |||
Per year | 0 (00%) | 12 (7.8%) | 0 (00%) | 0 (00%) | |||
No more | 1 (0.7%) | 11 (7.2%) | 3 (2.2%) | 4 (2.8%) | |||
Total | 149 (100.0%) | 153 (100.0%) | 137 (100.0%) | 141 (100.0%) |