Adolescents Living with HIV: An Indian Profile

Table 1

Sociodemographic distribution of study population 2005–May, 2011.

Category	Males	Females
Age:
10–14 years	132 (23.16%)	101 (30.06%)
15–19 years	438 (76.84%)	235 (69.94%)
Education:
Illiterate	46 (7.59%)	38 (10.61%)
Primary	238 (39.27%)	146 (40.78%)
Secondary	274 (45.21%)	143 (39.94%)
Degree	48 (7.92%)	31 (8.66%)
Marital status:
Married	22 (3.63%)	31 (8.68%)
Unmarried	584 (96.37%)	326 (91.32%)
Risk behavior:
Heterosexual promiscuous	281 (45.77%)	149 (41.50%)
Homosexual promiscuous	3 (0.49%)	0 (0%)
Parent-to-child-transmission	94 (15.31%)	47 (13.09%)
Blood transfusion	16 (2.61%)	5 (1.39%)
Injected drug abuse	5 (0.81%)	0 (0%)
Needle prick	0 (0%)	11 (3.06%)
Others	215 (35.02%)	147 (40.97%)
HIV Status
HIV positive	57 (9.27%)	27 (7.46%)
HIV negative	558 (90.73%)	335 (92.54%)