Research Article

The Epidemiology of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Syphilis in Ghana: A Five-Year Single Urban Site Parallel Population-Based Analysis vis-à-vis the Sentinel Survey

Table 1

Year-on-year prevalence of HIV infection among blood donors and pregnant women (Sentinel survey) in the Ho municipality.

ParameterTotal20122013201420152016 for trends

Donors4,1818861,127630646892
Positive200 (4.78)40 (4.51)68 (6.03)37 (5.87)19 (2.94)36 (4.04)0.0848
Sentinel2,452500497458499498
Positive60 (2.45)8 (1.60)3 (0.60)20 (4.37)14 (2.81)15 (3.01)0.0217
-value<0.00010.0035<0.00010.334810.3742

Data is presented as frequency with the corresponding percentage in parenthesis. is significant at 0.05.