Table 1.
Socio-demographics and health-related characteristics at baseline
| Age [mean(sd)] | 26.5 (5.1) years |
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| Gestational age [mean (sd)] | 27.6 (7.0) weeks |
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| Marital status N (%) | |
| • Married | 43 (19.1) |
| • Single with partner | 152 (67.9) |
| • No partner | 29 (12.9) |
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| Education level N (%) | |
| • None/primary | 21 (9.3) |
| • Secondary | 171 (76.3) |
| • Some tertiary | 32 (14.3) |
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| Household income monthly per-capita [median] | R320 |
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| Below poverty line <R200 N (%) | 64 (28.6) |
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| Regular income employment N (%) | |
| • Participant | 52 (23.2) |
| • Partner | 151 (67.4) |
| Partner providing financial support | 160 (71.4) |
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| Prior experience of violence N(%) | |
| • Emotional | 55 (24.6) |
| • Financial withholding/control | 36 (16.1) |
| • Physical | 26 (11.6) |
| • Sexual | 12 (5.4) |
| • >2 types of violence | 49 (21.9) |
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| CD4 [mean (sd)] | 433 (232.5) |
| • <200 N(%) | 27 (12.2) |
| Using ART | 19 (10.6) |
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| Disclosure N (%) | 138(61.6) |
| • Partner | 102(45.5) |
| • Others | 72(32.1) |
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| Know someone with HIV N (%) | 89 (39.7) |
| • Relative | 44 (19.6) |
| • Non-relative | 65 (29.0) |
Note. N = Number; sd = standard deviation.