Table 3. percentage distribution of selected characteristics among PLHIV Age 15–49, by country.
| Burkina Faso 2010 | Cameroon 2011 | Chad 2014–15 |
Cote d’Ivoire 2011–12 | Ethiopia 2011 | Gabon 2012 |
Lesotho 2014 | Malawi 2015–16 | Namibia 2013 | Rwanda 2014–15 | Sierra Leone 2013 | Tanzania 2011–12 | Togo 2013–14 |
Uganda 2011 | Zambia 2013–14 | Zimbabwe 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | ||||||||||||||||
| Male | 34.3 | 31.1 | 37.6 | 34.6 | 31.7 | 25.6 | 34.3 | 34.2 | 37.0 | 33.1 | 38.4 | 33.9 | 31.7 | 36.8 | 40.2 | 35.2 |
| Female | 65.7 | 68.9 | 62.4 | 65.4 | 68.3 | 74.4 | 65.7 | 65.8 | 63.0 | 66.9 | 61.6 | 66.1 | 68.3 | 63.2 | 59.8 | 64.8 |
| Place of residence | ||||||||||||||||
| Urban | 56.9 | 60.6 | 70.6 | 60.2 | 66.6 | 88.2 | 42.8 | 31.0 | 53.6 | 41.7 | 56.5 | 37.7 | 65.3 | 24.3 | 63.4 | 38.8 |
| Rural | 43.1 | 39.4 | 29.4 | 39.8 | 33.4 | 11.8 | 57.2 | 69.0 | 46.4 | 58.3 | 43.5 | 62.3 | 34.7 | 75.7 | 36.6 | 61.2 |
| Age group | ||||||||||||||||
| 15–19 | 5.7 | 6.7 | 12.1 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 16.6 | 4.7 | 2.0 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 5.7 |
| 20–29 | 22.0 | 31.6 | 33.9 | 29.0 | 33.0 | 29.4 | 31.4 | 23.4 | 22.2 | 26.5 | 33.4 | 27.0 | 16.6 | 29.8 | 28.2 | 22.6 |
| 30–39 | 44.9 | 39.3 | 39.4 | 35.2 | 45.9 | 39.9 | 38.7 | 41.4 | 45.3 | 33.6 | 36.8 | 39.6 | 44.4 | 38.1 | 38.4 | 40.1 |
| 40–49 | 27.4 | 22.4 | 14.6 | 33.0 | 19.1 | 25.7 | 24.9 | 29.4 | 29.0 | 35.7 | 13.3 | 28.8 | 37.0 | 24.8 | 25.6 | 31.7 |
| Education | ||||||||||||||||
| None | 54.9 | 8.7 | 42.7 | 50.5 | 31.8 | 2.5 | 5.0 | 12.4 | 9.0 | 15.2 | 42.8 | 12.9 | 22.4 | 12.8 | 5.7 | 0.9 |
| Primary | 21.4 | 37.9 | 21.2 | 28.3 | 46.1 | 22.7 | 46.4 | 57.5 | 30.8 | 65.8 | 9.5 | 73.7 | 35.3 | 63.2 | 40.6 | 29.2 |
| Secondary+ | 23.7 | 53.4 | 36.1 | 21.2 | 22.2 | 74.8 | 48.6 | 30.1 | 60.2 | 19.0 | 47.7 | 13.4 | 42.3 | 24.0 | 53.7 | 69.8 |
| Wealth tercile | ||||||||||||||||
| Lowest | 16.8 | 17.3 | 15.7 | 25.8 | 7.4 | 27.7 | 20.3 | 26.9 | 33.7 | 29.6 | 22.8 | 23.0 | 5.4 | 26.5 | 19.2 | 28.1 |
| Middle | 23.0 | 30.7 | 14.4 | 24.8 | 13.3 | 41.9 | 31.9 | 27.8 | 43.5 | 27.6 | 20.1 | 25.0 | 26.6 | 28.7 | 29.8 | 28.0 |
| Highest | 60.2 | 52.0 | 70.0 | 49.4 | 79.2 | 30.5 | 47.8 | 45.3 | 22.8 | 42.8 | 57.1 | 52.0 | 68.0 | 44.8 | 51.0 | 43.9 |
| Lifetime number of sexual partners | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 6.8 | 2.4 | 8.8 | 0.0 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 4.3 | 5.5 | 3.2 | 0.4 | 3.8 | 5.0 | 4.7 |
| 1 | 33.2 | 9.8 | 37.9 | 13.6 | 26.7 | 2.3 | 15.3 | 16.1 | 11.6 | 28.7 | 15.8 | 12.5 | 9.5 | 14.2 | 16.4 | 22.8 |
| 2–3 | 47.2 | 25.4 | 34.0 | 38.5 | 51.1 | 13.0 | 39.4 | 50.1 | 44.3 | 49.6 | 32.2 | 44.6 | 52.5 | 36.9 | 42.2 | 42.5 |
| 4+ | 12.9 | 57.6 | 14.9 | 44.4 | 16.9 | 68.3 | 40.6 | 30.7 | 36.8 | 17.4 | 34.8 | 37.8 | 36.9 | 40.9 | 35.3 | 28.3 |
| DK/Missing | 0.0 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 14.4 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 5.6 | 0.0 | 11.6 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 4.3 | 1.0 | 1.6 |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Number | 148 | 584 | 163 | 317 | 400 | 426 | 1,435 | 1,266 | 1,085 | 365 | 207 | 908 | 216 | 1,436 | 3,704 | 2,229 |
Note: Percentages may not sum to total due to rounding.