Table 1.
Characteristics of study participants
| Interviews | ||
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| Adolescents | Health care providers | |
| Age range | 10–19 | 32–47 |
| Mean age | 16.8 | 36 |
| Rural | 12 (21%) | 5 |
| Urban | 46 (79%) | 9 |
| Male | 29 | 5 |
| Female | 29 | 9 |
| In sexual relationship | 29 (50%) | – |
| Planning to have children | 28 (48%) | – |
| Total | 58 | 14 |
| Focus group discussions | ||
| Adolescents living with HIV | ||
| Female sessions | 4 sessions; n=18 | |
| Mixed sessions | 4 sessions; n=35 (female=48.6% in mixed sessions) | |
| Urban | 22 (42%) | |
| Rural | 31 (58%) | |
| Total | 8 sessions; n=53 | |
| Health care providers | ||
| Urban | 2 sessions; n=16 | |
| Rural | 1 session; n=8 | |
| Total | 3 sessions; n=24 | |
| Parents and guardians | ||
| Urban | 1 session; n=8 | |
| Rural | 1 session; n=13 | |
| Total | 2 sessions; n=21 | |