Table 1.
Characteristics of study participants who reported selling sex to men during diary follow-up (prospective diary study, Coastal Kenya, 2007).
| BiMSW, N =
48 N (%) or median IQR |
ExMSW, N =
34 N (%) or median IQR |
P value (Fisher’s
exact test unless indicated) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Years | 27 (23–32) | 25.5 (22–30) | 0.320b |
| Marital status | Single | 34 (70.8) | 30 (88.2) | 0.084 |
| Married | 5 (10.4) | 3 (8.8) | ||
| Divorced/Widowed | 9 (18.8) | 1 (2.9) | ||
| Religion | Catholic | 16 (33.3) | 10 (29.4) | 0.841 |
| Protestant | 14 (29.2) | 8 (23.5) | ||
| Muslim | 16 (33.3) | 14 (41.2) | ||
| None | 2 (4.2) | 2 (5.9) | ||
| Highest educational enrolment | None | 0.409 | ||
| Primary | 23 (47.9) | 21 (61.8) | ||
| Secondary | 19 (39.6) | 11 (32.4) | ||
| Higher | 6 (12.5) | 2 (5.9) | ||
| Employment | Formal employment | 6 (12.5) | 5 (14.7) | 0.908 |
| Self-employment | 19 (39.6) | 14 (41.2) | ||
| Unemployed | 23 (47.9) | 15 (44.1) | ||
| Earnings from any source (last month) | <2000 KSH | 10 (20.8) | 11 (32.4) | 0.417 |
| 2–5000 KSH | 18 (37.5) | 13 (38.2) | ||
| 5000+ KSH | 20 (41.7) | 10 (29.4) | ||
| Clinical | ||||
| Circumciseda | Yes | 38 (84.4) | 29 (87.9) | 0.751 |
| No | 7 (15.6) | 4 (12.1) | ||
| HIV status | Positive | 4 (8.3) | 17 (50.0) | <0.001 |
| Negative | 44 (91.7) | 17 (50.0) |
biMSW, MSM-SW who reported male and female partners during follow-up; exMSW, MSM-SW who reported only male partners during follow-up; IQR, interquartile range, KSH: Kenyan shilling.
a
Data missing for four men.
b
Wilcoxon rank-sum.