Table 2.

Mean scores of the two stigmatising indices, continued childbearing among HIV-positive women and abortion among HIV-positive women, based on a scale of 3–9, with standard deviations (SDs), and percentage of respondents characterised as falling into each of three categories within each index (low, moderate or highly stigmatising attitudes towards each pregnancy outcome), women and men, Zambia and Nigeria, 2009–2010

	Zambia		Nigeria
Stigmatising index	Women	Men	Women	Men
Continued childbearing among HIV-Positive Women	4.60 (1.78)	5.35 (1.82)	4.39 (1.83)	4.62 (1.99)
Low stigma (3–4)	47.57***	25.81	52.54	50.32
Moderate stigma (5–6)	27.87	35.58	22.32	20.72
High stigma (7–9)	24.56	38.62	25.15	28.95
Abortion among HIV-Positive Women	7.83 (1.82)	7.73 (1.91)	6.02 (2.46)	6.01 (2.52)
Low stigma (3–4)	6.083	8.324	33.37	34.77
Moderate stigma (5–6)	10.05	11.28	15.75	16.36
High stigma (7–9)	83.87	80.4	50.88	48.87

^***Women and men in Zambia are significantly different at p <0.001 in their scores on the index of stigmatisation of continued childbearing among HIV-positive women