Table 3.

Multivariate analysis of HIV infection in young rural women aged 15–24 years

Variables	All women		Sexually active women only
	Underlying factors	With proximate factors	Underlying factors	With proximate factors
Cluster-level variables
Education1
Low	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Middle	0.49 (0.20–1.21)	0.49 (0.20–1.21)	0.44 (0.18–1.11)	0.41 (0.16–1,06)
High	0.29 (0.09–0.87)	0.24 (0.09–0.87)	0.29 (0.09–0.90)	0.30 (0.10–0.93)
Individual-level variables
Education2
Low	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Middle	1.01 (0.42–2.40)	1.01 (0.42–2.40)	1.00(0.41–2.39)	0.97 (0.40–2.36)
High	1.37 (0.43–4.36)	1.37 (0.43–4,36)	1.25 (0.39–4.06)	1.35 (0.41–4.40)
Current student
Not student
Student	a	a	a	a
Ever married
Single	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Married	1.09 (0.36–3.35)	1.09 (0.36–3,35)	0.68 (0.23–2.06)	0.40 (0.13–1.26)
Ever had sex
No			-	-
Yes		a
Ever given birth
No				1.00
Yes				6.37 (1.24–32.7)
Number of lifetime sexual partners
0 partner5				-
1 partner				1.00
2 partners				1.05 (0.42–2.63)
≥ 3 partners				1.76 (0.67–4.61)

⁽¹⁾ Cluster level education is based on the mean years of educational attainment of the population in the neighbourhoods: rural: low (4.0–5.3), middle (5.4–6.5), high (6.6–9.5)

⁽²⁾ Individual level education categorization is as follows, rural: low (grade 0 – 4), middle (grade 5 – 7) & high (grade 8 and above).

⁽³⁾ CI, confidence interval

⁽⁴⁾ AOR, age-adjusted odds ratio

⁽⁵⁾ '0 partner' is equal to the number young women who have not had sexual intercourse

^a AOR could not be computed because the prevalence for one of the elements was zero.

Significant results are in bold (p < 0.05)