Table 1.

Enrollment characteristics of HIV-infected men and HIV-negative women in couples enrolled concurrently.

	Males					Female Partners
	Intervention		Control		Exact P-value	Intervention		Control		Exact P- value
	N	%	N	%		N	%	N	%
Total Enrolment age	87	100	68	100.0		93*	100.0	70*	100.0
15–19						4	4.3	3	4.3
20–29	25	28.7	13	19.1	0.375	60	64.6	31	44.3	0.067
30–49	62	71.3	55	80.9		29	31.2	36	51.4
Education
None	1	1.1	4	5.9		13	14.0	11	15.7
Primary	69	79.3	50	73.5	0.174	74	79.6	55	78.6	0.955
Secondary or higher	17	19.5	14	20.6		6	6.6	4	5.7
Marital status
Never married						0	0.0	1	1.4
Monogamous	74	85.1	54	79.4		76	81.7	57	81.4
Polygamous	13	14.9	14	20.6	0.398	17	18.3	12	17.1	1.000
Sex partners past year
None						0	0.0	2	2.9
One	35	40.2	26	38.2		82	88.2	63	90.0
Two	35	40.2	32	47.1	0.605	9	9.7	4	5.7	0.340
Three or more	17	19.5	10	14.7		2	2.2	1	1.4
Condom use past year
None	47	54.0	27	39.7		73	78.5	44	62.9
Inconsistent	36	41.4	35	51.5	0.163	19	20.4	22	31.4	0.017
Consistent	4	4.6	6	8.8		1	1.1	4	5.7
Alcohol at time of sex, past year
Yes	63	72.4	54	79.4	0.351	35	38.5	25	37.3	1.000
Accepted HIV results at time of enrollment STI symptom past yr	85	97.7	64	94.1	0.405	64	68.8%	52	74.3%	0.488
GUD	23	26.4	13	19.1	0.340	15	16.1	14	20.0	0.541
Discharge/dysuria	18	20.7	10	14.7	0.403	47	50.5	35	50.0	1.000
STI symptom, current
GUD	3	3.4	0	0.0	0.256	2	2.2	1	1.4	1.000
Discharge/dysuria	5	5.8	3	4.4	1.000	19	20.5	15	21.4	1.000
Syphilis serology
RPR/TPPA neg	74	91.4	58	87.9		77	89.5	58	85.3
RPR+/TPPA neg	4	4.9	1	1.5		5	5.8	4	5.9	0.612
RPR+/TPPA+	3	3.7	7	10.6	0.150	4	4.7	6	8.8
Male partner HIV viral load
BD, <400	18	20.7	6	8.8
<50,000 cps/ML	47	54.0	42	58.8	0.109
≥ 50,000 cps/mL	22	25.3	22	32.4

The number of males is less than the number of females enrolled because 5 men in the intervention arm and 2 in the control arm were polygamous and both their co-wives were enrolled. In the analyses, correlation was accounted for by robust variance estimates.