Table 1.
Characteristics of the study population.
| Variables a | Total | HPV vaccine included in the National Immunization Program | HPV vaccine not included in the National Immunization Program | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 153 (100.0) | Range | n = 97 (63.4) | Range | n = 56 (36.6) | Range | |
| Age (mean, SD, years), n = 139 | 38.5 (10.1) | 20–69 | 36.3 (9.2) | 20–59 | 42.9 (10.4) | 25–69 |
| n (%) | 95% CI | n (%) | 95% CI | n (%) | 95% CI | |
| Gender | n = 139 | |||||
| Female | 75 (54.0) | 45.6–62.3 | 56 (61.5) | 51.4–71.7 | 19 (39.6) | 25.6–53.6 |
| Male | 64 (46.0) | 37.7–54.4 | 35 (38.5) | 28.3–48.6 | 29 (60.4) | 46.4–74.4 |
| Country by region b | n = 153 | |||||
| Eastern Africa | 16 (10.5) | 5.6–15.4 | 7 (7.2) | 2.0–12.4 | 9 (16.1) | 6.3–25.8 |
| Middle Africa | 64 (41.8) | 33.9–49.7 | 52 (53.6) | 43.6–63.6 | 12 (21.4) | 10.6–32.3 |
| Northern Africa | 10 (6.5) | 2.6–10.5 | 9 (9.3) | 3.4–15.1 | 1 (1.8) | 0.0–5.3 |
| Southern Africa | 6 (3.9) | 0.8–7.0 | 6 (6.2) | 1.3–11.0 | 0 | - |
| Western Africa | 57 (37.3) | 29.5–45.0 | 23 (23.7) | 15.2–32.3 | 34 (60.7) | 47.8–73.7 |
| Provider | n = 134 | |||||
| Doctors/Residents | 87 (64.9) | 56.7–73.1 | 54 (60) | 49.7–70.3 | 33 (75) | 62.0–88.0 |
| Nurses/Midwives | 25 (18.7) | 12–25.3 | 18 (20) | 11.6–28.4 | 7 (15.9) | 5.0–26.9 |
| Otherc | 22 (16.4) | 10.1–22.8 | 18 (20) | 11.6–28.4 | 4 (9.1) | 0.5–17.7 |
| Setting | n = 126 | |||||
| Rural | 13 (10.3) | 4.9–15.7 | 10 (11.4) | 4.6–18.1 | 3 (7.9) | 0.0–16.6 |
| Urban | 113 (89.7) | 84.3–95.1 | 78 (88.6) | 81.9–95.4 | 35 (92.1) | 83.4–100.0 |
aFor some variables, the total number of observations does not add up to 153 because of missing data. bThe UN Statistics Division has subdivided the African continent into five regions: Northern Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara), Central or Middle Africa (Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe), Southern Africa (Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa), Eastern Africa (Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Seychelles, Comoros, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zambia, Mauritius, Zimbabwe), and Western Africa (Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Gambia, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria). cThe “other” category included health administrators, community health workers, and program managers.