Table 6.

Percent distribution of FSW with comprehensive knowledge about HIV by background characteristics in Ghana 2020.

Background characteristic	Percentage of women who say that:
	A healthy-looking person can have HIV	Using condoms can reduce chances of getting HIV	Limiting sexual intercourse to one uninfected partner can reduce chances of getting HIV	HIV cannot be transmitted by mosquito bites	HIV cannot be transmitted by supernatural means	Percentage with a comprehensive knowledge about HIV
	6,705	6,721	6,735	6,773	6,714	6,773
Age
16–24 years	83.1	86.7	86.5	76.3	56.3	32.5
25–35 years	88.1	86.4	86.7	78.3	57.7	37.6
>35 years	84.8	88.7	82.1	68.6	52.7	31.9
Education
No formal education/some primary	80.1	86.0	88.7	69.7	49.3	25.0
Completed Primary	84.2	86.7	85.8	70.7	48.1	27.4
Some Secondary	86.7	87.0	86.1	78.8	59.5	37.8
Country of birth
Ghana	85.7	87.1	87.0	77.4	55.3	34.6
Nigeria	86.3	84.5	80.4	71.3	63.2	36.4
Other	88.3	89.8	89.7	76.0	75.5	47.8
Region of residence
Western	79.7	85.9	84.6	60.2	38.0	15.6
Central	90.6	86.3	88.7	81.0	58.1	36.5
Greater Accra	88.0	84.9	80.4	74.6	57.6	35.1
Volta	94.1	94.3	92.4	62.7	51.0	25.6
Eastern	90.7	90.7	91.4	71.7	40.1	28.7
Ashanti	83.6	88.7	91.3	89.2	65.2	41.3
Western North	87.2	78.8	86.8	72.1	61.9	30.7
Ahafo	100.0	92.6	99.9	98.0	89.2	64.3
Bono	88.0	92.6	88.9	87.2	66.8	47.0
Bono East	97.8	92.3	82.3	76.5	67.6	40.9
Oti	50.5	61.4	71.4	60.6	42.1	12.5
Northern	80.8	84.1	90.2	67.6	73.2	41.2
Savannah	95.7	95.7	73.3	93.9	85.6	67.6
North East	68.6	88.0	66.1	86.4	81.3	44.6
Upper East	85.4	85.9	88.9	75.6	55.4	36.7
Upper West	76.6	89.5	88.8	72.4	66.9	38.4
National	84.9	86.2	85.7	76.6	55.5	34.5