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 6

Distribution of five-year burden of Syphilis infection by age categories.

Parameter	15–19	20–24	25–29	30–34	35–39	40–44	45–49
Sentinel	0 (0.00)	2 (0.34)	1 (0.15)	1 (0.20)	2 (0.64)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)
Total	7 (3.98)	23 (2.21)	32 (2.50)	12 (1.88)	15 (3.20)	2 (0.72)	17 (5.72)
Female	0 (0.00)	4 (3.31)	2 (1.47)	1 (0.93)	2 (4.76)	0 (0.00)	1 (5.56)
Male	7 (4.90)	19 (2.06)	30 (2.63)	11 (2.07)	13 (3.04)	2 (0.79)	16 (5.73)
-value	0.0011	0.0025	<0.0001	0.0091	0.0215	1	1
-value	1	0.0093	0.0732	0.3254	0.0703	1	1
-value	0.0004	0.0055	<0.0001	0.0064	0.0313	1	1
-value	0.3503	0.33	0.5686	0.7012	0.6349	1	1

Data is presented as frequency with the corresponding percentage in parenthesis. is significant at 0.05. compares total and Sentinel, compares females and Sentinel, compares male and Sentinel, and compares female and male.