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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2014 Apr 15;65(5):e162–e169. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000000066

Table 4. Comparisons of Clinic Contacts to Community contacts for Prevalence of Infections and Behaviors.

Contacts of HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected seeds are compared to contacts of community seeds for the prevalence of several infections and outcomes.

Clinic Based-Seeds Community Seeds
HIV-uninfected HIV-infected
PR (95% CI) PR (95% CI) Reference
STI syndrome (any versus none) 3.2 (1.4, 7.2) 2.0 (0.8, 5.3) 1.
HIV status (positive versus negative) 1.1 (0.4, 3.3) 3.2 (1.3, 7.8) 1.
Previous HIV test (yes versus no) 1.2 (0.7, 2.1) 1.3 (0.7, 2.3) 1.
New positive (new positive versus other) 1.8 (0.5, 6.4) 2.3 (0.7, 8.0) 1.
Condom use in last 5 acts (never versus ever) 0.9 (0.8, 1.1 ) 0.7 (0.5, 1.0) 1.
Sex partners in last 3 months (>2 versus 0 or 1) 1.5 (0.4, 6.4) 2.5 (0.7, 9.2) 1.
Sex for money in last 3 months (yes versus no) 0.6 (0.3, 1.3) 0.8 (0.4, 1.7) 1.

PR=prevalence ratio; CI=confidence interval