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 4

Year-on-year prevalence of new Syphilis (15–24 years) infection among blood donors and pregnant women in the Ho municipality.

Parameter	Total	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	for trends
Donors	1,218	243	337	194	185	259
Positive	30 (2.46)	5 (2.06)	12 (3.56)	2 (1.03)	4 (2.16)	7 (2.70)	0.8932
Sentinel	870	178	207	165	160	160
Positive	2 (0.23)	0 (0.00)	0(0.00)	1 (0.61)	1 (0.63)	0 (0.00)	0.5478
-value	<0.0001	0.0760	0.0046	1	0.3780	0.0473

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