Table 1. Client characteristics at a VCT centre in Moshi, Tanzania, pre-CTC and during CTC scale-up, N=4,391.
| Males | Females | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pre-CTC | CTC Scale-up | p-value | pre-CTC | CTC Scale-up | p-value | |
| Age | 31.5 | 32.4 | 0.4495 | 33.1 | 32.3 | 0.4757 |
| Primary school education or less | 58.0% | 55.4% | 0.3799 | 81.0% | 68.4% | 0.0000 |
| Rural residence | 59.2% | 44.2% | 0.0000 | 67.5% | 44.6% | 0.0000 |
| Seropositivity | 14.9% | 9.9% | 0.0341 | 35.4% | 25.9% | 0.0001 |
| Marital status | ||||||
| Co-habitating | 5.7% | 5.4% | 0.1121 | 8.6% | 8.5% | 0.4180 |
| Divorced/separated | 4.3% | 9.7% | 0.0001 | 10.4% | 14.1% | 0.0058 |
| Widowed | 3.7% | 3.1% | 0.6074 | 20.2% | 11.7% | 0.0090 |
| Married | 25.3% | 23.0% | 0.7021 | 22.6% | 20.8% | 0.1653 |
| Single | 61.1% | 58.8% | 0.5545 | 38.2% | 44.9% | 0.0755 |
| Behavioral risk | ||||||
| 3 or more lifetime partners | 55.6% | 66.7% | 0.0172 | 26.4% | 31.4% | 0.0951 |
| Number of lifetime partners | 4.47 | 5.88 | 0.0199 | 2.30 | 2.31 | 0.6767 |
| Symptoms | ||||||
| Any symptoms | 26.1% | 12.9% | 0.0000 | 35.9% | 22.1% | 0.0000 |
| Number of symptoms 1 | 2.40 | 2.01 | 0.7592 | 2.52 | 2.35 | 0.8848 |
p-value denotes significance of trend among all clients (Nov 2003 - Dec 2007)
1
mean number of symptoms for clients with any symptoms