Table 1.
Characteristics of the participants tested through community-based HTC in rural Swaziland
| MHTC | HBHTC | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children (1–9 years) | Adolescent (10–19 years) | Adult (≥20 years) | Total* | Children (1–9 years) | Adolescent (10–19 years) | Adult (≥20 years) | Total* | ||||||||||
| n | % | n | % | N | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | N | % | n | % | P† | |
| Total | 110 | – | 245 | – | 1679 | – | 2034 | – | 2086 | – | 1924 | – | 3016 | – | 7026 | – | |
| Gender | |||||||||||||||||
| Male | 50 | 46 | 142 | 58 | 703 | 42 | 895 | 44 | 1025 | 49 | 918 | 48 | 1163 | 39 | 3106 | 44 | 0.020 |
| Female | 58 | 54 | 103 | 42 | 969 | 58 | 1130 | 56 | 1058 | 51 | 1005 | 52 | 1851 | 61 | 3914 | 56 | |
| Previous HIV test | |||||||||||||||||
| Never | 91 | 83 | 153 | 63 | 359 | 22 | 603 | 30 | 1899 | 92 | 1576 | 83 | 1013 | 34 | 4488 | 64 | <0.001 |
| Within last 12 months | 9 | 8 | 56 | 23 | 715 | 43 | 780 | 39 | 57 | 3 | 113 | 6 | 781 | 26 | 951 | 14 | |
| Over a year ago | 9 | 8 | 35 | 14 | 592 | 35 | 636 | 32 | 114 | 6 | 219 | 11 | 1181 | 40 | 1514 | 22 | |
| HIV test result | |||||||||||||||||
| Negative | 109 | 100 | 240 | 98 | 1578 | 95 | 1927 | 94 | 2058 | 99 | 1884 | 98 | 2806 | 94 | 6748 | 96 | 0.285 |
| Positive | 0 | – | 5 | 2 | 91 | 5 | 96 | 6 | 21 | 1 | 32 | 2 | 189 | 6 | 242 | 4 | |
| Indeterminate | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
32 individuals had missing information on age and do not appear in this table. Furthermore, the sum of the subtotals does not add up to the total because 1 (0.01%) individual had missing information on gender, 75 (0.83%) had missing info for previous HIV testing and 42 (0.5%) had a missing HIV test result.
P value from Pearson's chi-squared test comparing proportions among adults only.