Table 3. Disclosure amongst couples (qualitative only).
Mothers without a partner | Both partners disclosed | Only mother disclosed to partner | Only male partner disclosed | Neither partner disclosed | |
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Adult Women | 0/53 | 40/53a | 10/53 | 0/53 | 3/53 |
Adolescents | 0/13 | 5/13 | 4/13b | 0/13 | 4/13c |
Lost to Follow Up Women | 2/22 | 11/22d | 6/22 | 0/22 | 3/22 |
a2/40 adult women in couples where both partners had disclosed experienced adherence challenges; one stopped antiretroviral treatment (ART) when she stopped breastfeeding, the other did not continue ART because she did not understand how she was infected with HIV.
b3/4 adolescents who disclosed to their partner did not adhere to ART (one was a sex worker finding it difficult to attend clinic visits, one was reluctant to be on ART because her partner refused to get tested, one did not want to continue ART after her partner refused to accompany her to the ART clinic).
c1/4 adolescents in couples where neither partner disclosed stopped ART because she feared inadvertent disclosure by lay health workers.
d2/11 Lost to Follow Up women stopped ART after their relationship ended because they did not want to take ART on their own. 2/11 LTFU women were discouraged from continuing ART by their male partner because the male partner feared ART side effects for both individuals. 3/11 Lost to Follow Up women in serodiscordant relationships stopped ART after being separated from their partner due to HIV disclosure by the woman.