Table 5.

Crude and respondent-driven sampling (RDS)-adjusted prevalence estimates from female sex workers (FSW) recruited using snowball sampling and RDS methods in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Characteristics		Snowball	RDS (N=576)
		n (%)	n (%)	Adjusted % (95% CI)	Equilibrium waveb
Age (years)
	18-21	25 (8.1)	75 (13.0)	15.6 (10.3-19.0)	12
	22-25	68 (22.1)	129 (22.4)	26.7 (21.8-33.1)	15
	26+	215 (69.8)	372 (64.6)	57.7 (51.2-65.0)	15
Education completed
	Primary school or lower	238 (77.5)	520 (90.3)	87.4 (81.8-92.2)	12
	Secondary school/high school	60 (19.5)	22 (3.8)	4.3 (2.4-7.1)	8
	More than high school	9 (2.9)	34 (5.9)	8.3 (4.0-13.1)	13
Married					3
	Yes	19 (6.3)	17 (3.0)	4.5 (1.9-7.6)
	No	285 (93.8)	559 (97.0)	95.5 (92.4-98.1)
HIV test in past 12 months, among those not living with HIV					14
	Yes	182 (70.3)	291 (70.0)	65.2 (55.7-72.1)
	No	77 (29.7)	125 (30.1)	34.8 (27.9-44.3)
Self-reported HIV status
	Negative	254 (83.3)	434 (76.3)	76.8 (71.7-81.9)	8
	Positive	21 (6.9)	75 (13.2)	10.5 (6.5-14.7)	9
	Not tested	30 (9.8)	60 (10.5)	12.7 (8.9-16.7)	10
Told a health care worker that she sells sex					14
	Yes	107 (34.7)	85 (14.8)	15.9 (12.1-21.7)
	No	201 (65.3)	491 (85.2)	84.1 (78.3-87.9)
Treated poorly in health care center because she sells sex					6
	Yes	5 (1.6)	3 (0.5)	0.1 (0.0-0.3)
	No	300 (98.4)	573 (99.5)	99.9 (99.7-1.0)
Felt like police refused to protect her because she sells sex					13
	Yes	139 (45.3)	87 (15.1)	13.2 (10.2-17.7)
	No	168 (54.7)	489 (84.9)	86.8 (82.3-89.8)
Blackmailed because she sells sex					9
	Yes	176 (57.9)	305 (53.0)	56.4 (50.7-62.5)
	No	128 (42.1)	270 (47.0)	43.6 (37.5-49.3)

^aRespondent-driven sampling (RDS) recruitment wave number at which equilibrium was reached for given variable.