Table 3.

Sex differences in HIV infection by age group

	Percentage HIV positive
	15–24 years			25–34 years			35 + years
Country	women	men	Sig.	women	men	Sig.	women	men	Sig.
Burkina Faso 2003	1.3	0.7	ns	2.5	3.2	ns	2.0	2.5	ns
Cameroon 2004	4.6	1.4	***	10.0	6.4	***	6.4	5.0	ns
Cote d’Ivoire 2005	2.4	0.3	***	10.7	4.1	***	9.0	5.5	**
Democratic Rep. Congo 2007	0.5	1.0	ns	2.3	0.8	**	2.6	0.9	***
Ethiopia 2005	1.1	0.2	***	1.8	1.3	ns	3.0	1.4	**
Ghana 2003	1.2	0.1	***	3.8	1.8	**	3.5	3.1	ns
Guinea 2005	1.2	0.6	ns	2.4	0.9	*	2.2	1.6	ns
Kenya 2003	5.9	1.2	***	12.4	7.0	***	9.0	7.4	ns
Lesotho 2004	15.4	6.0	***	39.8	32.2	**	30.6	27.8	ns
Liberia 2007	1.7	0.6	***	1.9	1.8	ns	2.2	1.5	ns
Malawi 2004	9.1	2.1	***	16.6	14.5	ns	16.4	14.9	ns
Mali 2006	0.9	0.7	ns	2.1	1.5	ns	1.9	1.3	ns
Niger 2006	0.5	0.3	ns	0.9	0.6	ns	0.8	1.1	ns
Rwanda 2005	1.5	0.3	***	4.6	2.8	**	5.9	4.1	*
Senegal 2005	0.4	0.1	*	1.2	0.6	ns	1.3	0.9	ns
Sierra Leone 2008	1.4	0.6	ns	2.3	1.6	ns	1.4	1.3	ns
Swaziland 2006	22.7	5.9	***	47.4	34.3	***	29.7	38.7	***
Tanzania 2003	4.0	3.0	*	10.9	7.6	**	9.6	9.7	ns
Zambia 2007	8.5	4.3	***	22.6	14.3	***	19.5	19.7	ns
Zimbabwe 2005	11.0	4.3	***	31.8	20.3	***	27.1	29.0	ns
All	5.0	1.9	***	11.4	8.0	***	8.9	7.8	***

^*P < 0.05

^**P < 0.01

^***P < 0.001.

Sig.: gender significance; ns: not significant.