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 5
Distribution of five-year burden of HIV infection by age categories.
Parameter
15–19
20–24
25–29
30–34
35–39
40–44
45–49
Sentinel
4 (1.40)
19 (3.25)
12 (1.76)
14 (2.82)
8 (2.56)
3 (3.90)
0 (0.00)
Total
5 (2.84)
41 (3.93)
62 (4.85)
27 (4.22)
36 (7.68)
15 (5.38)
14 (4.71)
Female
1 (3.03)
8 (6.61)
8 (5.88)
7 (6.48)
3 (7.14)
3 (11.11)
1 (5.56)
Male
4 (2.80)
33 (3.58)
54 (4.73)
20 (3.76)
33 (7.73)
12 (4.76)
13 (4.66)
-value
0.3120
0.5837
0.0004
0.2617
0.0023
0.7733
1
-value
0.4239
0.1120
0.0101
0.0774
0.1294
0.1791
1
-value
0.4499
0.7739
0.0007
0.4859
0.0030
1
1
-value
1
0.1300
0.5266
0.1942
1
0.1672
0.5917
Data is presented as frequency with the corresponding percentage in parenthesis. is significant at 0.05. compares total and sentinel, compares Female and Sentinel, compares male and sentinel, and compares female and male.
