Research Article
Differences in the Nonuse of any Contraception and Use of Specific Contraceptive Methods in HIV Positive and HIV Negative Rwandan Women
Table 1
Demographic and clinical characteristics of 471 women who reported wanting to prevent pregnancy.
| Characteristics | HIV-negative | HIV-positive | value |
| Age | | | | <30 | 17 (22.4%) | 97 (24.6%) | 0.001 | 30–40 | 34 (44.8%) | 245 (62.0%) | >40 | 25 (32.9%) | 53 (13.4%) | Married and living with partner | | | | Yes | 39 (51.3%) | 183 (46.3%) | 0.425 | No | 37 (38.7%) | 212 (53.7%) | Currently pregnant | | | | Yes | 1 (1.3%) | 2 (0.5%) | 0.419 | No | 75 (98.7%) | 391 (99.5%) | Employment status | | | | Yes | 27 (37.0%) | 103 (26.6%) | 0.071 | No | 46 (63.0%) | 284 (73.4%) | Monthly income | | | | <10,000 | 25 (34.2%) | 121 (28.1%) | 0.033 | 10–35,000 | 28 (38.4%) | 208 (52.8%) | >35,000 | 20 (27.4%) | 65 (16.5%) | Experienced genocidal rape | | | | Yes | 46 (61.3%) | 193 (49.3%) | 0.055 | No | 29 (38.7%) | 199 (50.7%) | Number of living children | | | | 0 | 13 (17.2%) | 111 (28.1%) | 0.001 | 1-2 | 16 (21.0%) | 136 (34.4%) | 3-4 | 31 (40.8%) | 108 (27.4%) | 5+ | 16 (21.0%) | 40 (10.1%) | HIV/CD4 Status | | | | HIV− | 76 (100.0%) | 0 | 0.001 | HIV+ CD4 < 200 | 0 | 106 (26.8%) | HIV+ CD4 200–350 | 0 | 152 (38.5%) | HIV+ CD4 > 350 | 0 | 137 (34.7%) | Partner knowledge of HIV status | | | | HIV+ Partner knows | 0 | 222 (58.4%) | 0.001 | HIV+ Partner does not know | 0 | 158 (41.6%) | HIV− Partner knows | 43 (60.6%) | 0 | HIV− Partner does not know | 28 (39.4%) | 0 | Ever had sex for cash | | | | Yes | 14 (18.4%) | 94 (23.9%) | 0.302 | No | 62 (81.6%) | 300 (76.1%) |
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