HIV among Female Sex Workers in Five Cities in Burkina Faso: A Cross-Sectional Baseline Survey to Inform HIV/AIDS Programs

Table 4

Factors associated with HIV positive status among female sex workers in five cities in Burkina Faso .

	Variables	n (% HIV positive)	Bivariate analysis			Multivariate analysis
			OR	95% CI	p	aOR	95% CI	p
Sociodemographic characteristics	Total	1052 (16.1)	—	—	—	—	—	—
	Age (years)
	18–24	486 (4.9)	1			1
	25–29	246 (27.0)	2.37	1.33–4.21	0.003	1.76	0.90–3.45	0.095
	30–55	320 (36.9)	11.24	7.02–18.00	0.001	7.84	3.78–16.20	0.001
	Education
	None	243 (7.0)	1			1
	Primary	507 (13.2)	0.79	0.55–1.16	0.242	0.88	0.57–1.36	0.585
	Secondary and above	286 (29.0)	0.39	0.25–0.62	0.001	0.71	0.42–1.19	0.199
	Marital status
	Single	630 (8.9)	1			1
	Married/cohabitating	102 (27.5)	3.87	2.32–6.48	0.001	2.43	1.31–4.49	0.005
	Divorced/separated/widowed	320 (26.6)	3.71	2.56–3.37	0.001	1.58	0.99–2.51	0.052
	Occupation
	Student/pupil	49 (0.0)	—			—	—	—
	Employed (public or private)	391 (15.9)	0.88	0.63–1.25	0.488	—	—	—
	Unemployed	610 (17.5)	1			—	—	—
	Number of children
	0	279 (6.5)	1			1
	1	398 (12.3)	2.03	1.16–3.58	0.013	0.82	0.40–1.65	0.583
	≥2	375 (27.2)	2.41	3.19–9.19	0.001	0.74	0.35–1.56	0.440
	Parents alive
	One died	596 (19.3)	1			1
	Both alive	447 (11.6)	0.55	0.38–0.78	0.001	1.25	0.81–1.94	0.307
Sex work-related characteristics	Migrated into Burkina Faso
	No	682 (16.7)	1
	Yes	365 (14.8)	0.86	0.61–1.23	0.420	—	—	—
	Age at start of selling sex (years)
	<20	562 (11.0)	1			1
	20–24	259 (15.1)	1.42	0.92–2.19	0.104	1.27	0.74–2.17	0.376
	≥25	222 (30.2)	3.48	2.36–5.14	0.001	1.06	0.59–1.90	0.844
	Experience in sex work (years)
	Less than one year	243 (7.0)	1			1
	1–5 years	507 (13.2)	2.02	1.16–3.52	0.013	1.33	0.70–2.53	0.375
	6 years and more	286 (29.0)	5.43	3.11–9.46	0.001	1.57	0.76–3.22	0.223
	Number of clients per week
	1–14	565 (16.8)	1			1
	15–29	276 (18.8)	1.14	0.79–1.66	0.468	0.91	0.59–1.41	0.691
	30 and more	209 (10.5)	0.58	0.35–0.95	0.032	0.49	0.27–0.87	0.015
	STI symptoms over the last 12 months
	No	578 (13.0)	1			1
	Yes	465 (19.8)	1.64	1.18–2.30	0.003	1.44	0.98–2.13	0.063
	Ever got pregnant
	No	189 (2.1)	1			1
	Yes	862 (19.1)	10.94	4.00–29.9	0.001	5.24	1.44–18.97	0.012
	Ease of requesting client to wear a condom
	Easy	787 (15.5)	1
	Difficult	254 (18.1)	1.20	0.83–1.75	0.326	—	—	—
	Consistent condom use during the last 12 months
	No	406 (16,5)	1
	Yes	621 (15.7)	0.95	0.67–1.33	0.758	—	—	—
	Condom use during the last intercourse with new client
	No	94 (16.0)	1
	Yes	931 (15.9)	0.99	0.57–1.77	0.988	—	—	—
	Condom breakage over the last 12 months
	No	413 (11.4)	1			1
	Yes	639 (19.1)	1.84	1.27–2.64	0.001	1.78	1.16–2.73	0.007