Table 2.
Client characteristics (percent) at baseline (2011) and follow-up (2012) in Kirkos and Kolfe-Keranyo sub-cities of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
| Characteristic | Kirkos (intervention) |
Kolfe Keranyo (comparison) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline( n = 234) | Follow-up ( n = 293) | Baseline ( n = 225) | Follow-up ( n = 294) | |
| Age (mean) | 33.9 | 34.0 | 32.1 | 33.5 |
| Never attended school | 16.7 | 17.4 | 32.4 | 30.3 |
| Worked last year | 83.3 | 85.7 | 78.2 | 81.3 |
| Rent home (vs own) | 82.5 | 67.2 | 73.3 | 70.6 |
| Public/share toilet (vs private) | 80.3 | 84.0 | 41.3 | 53.7 |
| Live with sexual partner | 28.6 | 30.5 | 42.7 | 34.4 |
| Sex in last 6 months | 28.6 | 37.2 | 45.3 | 37.9 |
| Use a pregnancy prevention method | 29.9 | 34.6 | 44.6 | 31.3 |
| Don’t want more children (or undecided) | 74.4 | 84.5 | 69.6 | 83.5 |
| More than 2 years since HIV diagnosis | 88.3 | 93.9 | 84.4 | 96.6 |
| On ART | 89.7 | 91.5 | 85.3 | 87.1 |
| On ART more than 2 years a | 78.5 | 84.9 | 70.8 | 84.9 |
| ART adherent a | 54.6 | 63.8 | 59.5 | 66.1 |
| General QOL b | 2.24 | 2.01 | 2.09 | 1.95 |
a Kirkos ( n = 210) at baseline and ( n = 268) at follow-up. Kolfe ( n = 192) at baseline and ( n = 256) at follow-up.
b Measured in response to the question, ‘How would you rate your overall quality of life?’ where 1 = very poor, 2 = poor, 3 = neither good nor poor, 4 = good and 5 = very good.