Table 4.
Associations between violence and sexual HIV risk.
Number of total sex partners | Number of sex work clients | Number of condomless vaginal and anal sex acts with all partners | Number of condomless vaginal and anal sex acts with clients | |||||||||||||
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Type of violence | IRR (95% CI) | p | aIRR (95% CI) | p | IRR (95% CI) | p | aIRR (95% CI) | p | IRR (95% CI) | p | aIRR (95% CI) | p | IRR (95% CI) | p | aIRR (95% CI) | p |
Intimate partner violence | ||||||||||||||||
Physical | 1.65 (1.24, 2.23) | <0.001 | 1.66 (1.21, 2.27) | <0.001 | 1.68 (1.19, 2.39) | 0.004 | 2.01 (1.40, 2.90) | <0.001 | 1.86 (1.33, 2.61) | <0.001 | 1.65 (1.16, 2.35) | 0.004 | 1.77 (1.16, 2.75) | 0.009 | 1.38 (0.86, 2.23) | 0.144 |
Sexual | 1.79 (1.31, 2.48) | <0.001 | 1.76 (1.29, 2.44) | <0.001 | 1.93 (1.34, 2.84) | <0.001 | 2.39 (1.65, 3.50) | <0.001 | 1.71 (1.20, 2.48) | 0.004 | 1.54 (1.07, 2.26) | 0.020 | 1.41 (0.89, 2.29) | 0.151 | 1.28 (0.81, 2.09) | 0.290 |
Client violence | ||||||||||||||||
Physical | 2.31 (1.64, 3.34) | <0.001 | 2.20 (1.58, 3.12) | 0.001 | 2.46 (1.65, 3.81) | <0.001 | 2.12 (1.38, 3.32) | <0.001 | 1.84 (1.25, 2.82) | 0.003 | 1.73 (1.09, 2.50) | 0.021 | 2.49 (1.52, 4.31) | <0.001 | 2.30 (1.39, 3.96) | 0.002 |
Sexual | 1.84 (1.32, 2.60) | <0.001 | 2.07 (1.48, 2.93) | <0.001 | 2.28 (1.56, 3.44) | <0.001 | 2.70 (1.85, 4.02) | <0.001 | 1.45 (0.99, 2.17) | 0.063 | 1.45 (0.99, 2.16) | 0.070 | 1.90 (1.18, 3.19) | 0.011 | 2.16 (1.36, 3.56) | 0.003 |
Abbreviations: Incidence Rate ratio (IRR); adjusted IRR (aIRR)
aIRR adjusted for study site, homelessness, food security, detained in past 90 days, and sex work characteristics (years engaging in sex work, sex work as a main source of income, street-based sex work).