Table 4.

Sex differences in HIV infection by marital status

	Percentage HIV positive
	Never married			Currently married			Previously married
Country	women	men	Sig.	women	men	Sig.	women	men	Sig.
Burkina Faso 2003	2.0	0.8	*	1.6	2.8	**	5.5	4.6	ns
Cameroon 2004	3.5	2.1	*	6.2	4.9	*	18.4	6.7	***
Cote d’Ivoire 2005	4.6	1.3	***	6.1	3.6	***	14.9	11.0	ns
Democratic Rep. Congo 2007	0.8	1.1	ns	1.6	0.8	**	3.7	0.9	*
Ethiopia 2005	0.7	0.3	ns	1.6	1.2	ns	6.5	2.4	ns
Ghana 2003	1.1	0.3	**	2.9	2.5	ns	6.3	3.3	ns
Guinea 2005	1.1	0.5	ns	1.6	1.5	ns	8.9	0.0	***
Kenya 2003	4.7	1.5	***	8.0	6.9	ns	23.7	11.1	**
Lesotho 2004	14.9	8.6	***	26.9	29.3	ns	50.8	32.7	***
Liberia 2007	1.6	1.4	ns	1.8	1.1	**	3.1	2.2	ns
Malawi 2004	5.3	1.7	**	12.6	13.9	ns	29.1	16.7	*
Mali 2006	0.4	0.9	ns	1.6	1.1	ns	4.5	1.9	ns
Niger 2006	0.4	0.5	ns	0.5	0.7	ns	5.7	2.8	ns
Rwanda 2005	1.6	1.0	ns	2.8	3.0	ns	12.4	8.3	ns
Senegal 2005	0.3	0.0	*	0.9	0.8	ns	3.8	1.8	ns
Sierra Leone 2008	2.2	1.0	ns	1.4	1.1	ns	4.1	3.1	ns
Swaziland 2006	25.9	9.9	***	32.5	36.4	*	54.1	58.2	ns
Tanzania 2003	3.8	3.0	ns	6.9	7.8	ns	19.7	15.0	*
Zambia 2007	9.1	4.5	***	14.7	15.5	ns	36.9	37.9	ns
Zimbabwe 2005	8.4	4.3	***	20.2	22.7	**	46.3	43.4	ns
All	5.8	4.3	***	6.8	6.9	ns	22.0	15.2	***

^*P < 0.05

^**P < 0.01

^***P < 0.001.

Sig.: gender significance; ns: not significant.

The previously married category comprises those who are widowed, divorced or separated.