Who Is Going for VCT? A Case Study in Urban Burkina Faso

Table 1

Sociodemographic and behavioural characteristic, and HIV/STI prevalence among subjects tested for HIV in urban Burkina Faso.

	Total 𝑁	Users of VCT		Univariate; OR (95% CI)*	Multivariate; OR (95% CI)	𝑃 value**
		𝑛	%
Gender						0.19
Women	899	81	9.0	1	1
Men	795	92	11.6	1.3 (1.0–1.8)	1.1 (0.8–1.6)
Marital status						0.003
Single	872	67	7.7	1	1
Married or living in; couple	822	106	12.9	1.8 (1.3–2.5)	2.0 (1.3–3.1)
Polygamous						0.10
No	1540	163	10.6	1	1
Yes	153	10	6.5	0.6 (0.3–1.1)	0.6 (0.3–1.2)
Age (years)
15–19	459	13	2.8	1	1
20–29	677	89	13.1	5.2 (2.9–9.4)	4.2 (2.3–7.8)	<0.001
30–39	361	49	13.6	5.4 (2.9–10.1)	3.9 (1.9–8.2)	<0.001
40–49	197	22	11.2	4.3 (2.1–8.8)	3.2 (1.4–7.4)	0.007
Education
None	506	26	5.1	1	1
Primary	535	42	7.9	1.6 (0.9–2.6)	1.9 (1.1–3.2)	0.02
Post-primary	653	105	16.1	3.5 (2.3–5.5)	4.5 (2.8–7.3)	<0.001
Religion (Muslim)
No	719	81	11.3	1	—	—
Yes	965	92	9.5	0.8 (0.6–1.1)	—	—
Never used condom with the last occasional partner
No	343	154	44.9	1	—	—
Yes	43	19	44.2	0.9 (0.5–1.8)	—	—
No. of sexual partners (past 12 months)						0.23
1	1197	161	13.5	1	1
2+	103	12	11.7	0.8 (0.5–1.6)	0.7 (0.3–1.3)
HIV infection						0.65
No	1605	164	10.2	1	1
Yes	73	9	12.3	1.2 (0.6–2.5)	0.8 (0.4–1.8)
HSV-2 infection						0.48
No	1343	132	9.8	1	1
Yes	330	41	12.4	1.3 (0.9–1.9)	1.2 (0.8–1.8)
Syphilis
No	1653	171	10.3	1	—	—
Yes	25	2	8.0	0.8 (0.2–3.2)	—	—
Trichomoniasis
No	520	167	32.1	1	—	—
Yes	30	6	20.0	0.5 (0.2–1.3)	—	—

*Percentage (95% confidence interval).
** 𝑃-value in multivariable logistic regression.