. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2018 Jul;22(Suppl 1):19–25. doi: 10.1007/s10461-018-2130-5

Table 2.

Point prevalence of laboratory-confirmed STIs and self-reported symptoms among female sex workers in Iran, 2015.

Symptom/STI	N	%	95% confidence interval
Self-reported symptoms (n=1195)
Pain or burning	309	25.9	17.8–36.0
Genital ulcers	36	3.0	1.9–4.8
Excessive vaginal discharge	450	37.7	29.2–47.0
Genital warts	17	1.4	0.6–3.3
Other nonspecific symptoms	240	20.1	14.4–27.3
Any of the 4 specific symptoms	561	46.9	36.7–57.4
Types of STI (n=1318)
Syphilis	6	0.4	0.1–1.4
Gonorrhea	17	1.3	0.7–2.5
Chlamydia	79	6.0	3.9–9.1
Trichomoniasis	157	11.9	8.5–16.5
Human papilloma virus (HPV)	552	41.9	38.3–45.5