Table 3.

Changes in sexual behaviour from enrolment and at 12 months among rural and urban women aged 14–30 years in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

	Rural			Urban
Sexual behaviour characteristics	Baseline N = 477	Month 12 N = 266	P-value	Baseline N = 117	Month 12 N = 89	P-value
Mean number of vaginal sex acts in the past 2 weeks (range)	2 (0–11)	1.8 (0–18)	0.03	2 (0–20)	2 (0–8)	0.17
Mean percentage condom use with vaginal sex in the past 2 weeks (range)	30.5 (0–100)	58.0 (0–100)	<0.0001	41.9 (0–100)	61.3 (0–100)	0.10
Percentage with one sex partner in the past 3 months	98.5	94.3	0.004	82.1	92.3	0.37
Percentage reporting anal sex	0.8	1.5	0.18	6.8	1.3	0.03
Percentage not using contraception	21.8	10.9	0.05	29.1	34.6	0.48
Percentage using injectable hormonal contraception	55.1	63.9		18.8	32.1
Percentage using oral hormonal contraception	5.9	6.8		4.3	3.7
Percentage with any form of vaginal insertions	17.6	12.0	0.07	41.9	9.9	<0.0001
Percentage with sexually transmitted infectionsa	25.4	4.5	<0.0001	28.2	5.2	0.0002
Percentage with any abnormalb pelvic examination	39.6	15.4	<0.0001	36.8	30.9	0.35

^aGenital ulceration and or vaginal discharge.

^bAny abnormality of vaginal discharge, vaginitis, cervicitis, ulceration, abrasions, petechia, vesicles and/or warts.