Genital Tract Infections, Bacterial Vaginosis, HIV, and Reproductive Health Issues among Lima-Based Clandestine Female Sex Workers

Table 5

Bivariate analyses of relationships between individual behavioral characteristics and risk of HSV-2 herpes and syphilis, among 212 clandestine female sex workers: Lima, Peru, 2003.

	HSV-2 seropositivity				Syphilis seropositivity^a
	HSV-2 −	HSV-2 +			MHA-TP−	MHA-TP +
	𝑛=42	𝑛=169	𝑁=211		𝑛=191	𝑛=20		𝑁=212
Characteristic			Unadjusted		(%) or	(%) or	Unadjusted		Adjusted
	mean ± SD	mean ± SD	PRR	95% CI	Mean ± SD	mean ± SD	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Years of education					9.3 ± 3.1	7.7 ± 3.3	0.87	(0.76, 0.99)
Age	24.1 ± 4.4	29.0 ± 7.3	1.02	(1.00, 1.04)	27.4 ± 6.9	33.7 ± 6.6	1.12	(1.05, 1.20)	1.12	(1.05, 1.19)
Years in sex work					4.0 ± 4.4	7.7 ± 6.5	1.13	(1.04, 1.23)
Had problems using condom^b					90 (47)	16 (80)	4.49	(1.45, 13.92)	4.12	(1.29, 13.15)

^aMHA-TP confirmed. ^bPrevalence rate ratios (PRRs) associated with all covariates included in final multivariate models are reported.