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 2

Year-on-year prevalence of Syphilis infection among blood donors and pregnant women in the Ho municipality.

Parameter	Total	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	for trends
Donors	4,181	886	1,127	630	646	892
Positive	108 (2.58)	27 (3.05)	32 (2.84)	10 (1.59)	17 (2.63)	22 (2.47)	0.3874
Sentinel	2,452	500	497	458	499	498
Positive	6 (0.24)	1 (0.20)	0 (0.00)	3 (0.66)	2 (0.40)	0 (0.00)	0.9989
-value	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.2579	0.0038	<0.0001

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