Table 5.
Decision-Making and HIV Care Continuum Outcomes Among Married or Cohabitating Women Living with HIV in Mozambique
| |
Big household decisions |
Decisions to visit family |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total |
Woman does not contribute to decision making |
Woman makes decision together with her spouse or partner |
Woman makes decision alone |
p-Value | Woman does not contribute to decision-making |
Woman makes decision together with her spouse or partner |
Woman makes decision alone |
p-Value | |
| n = 600 |
n = 343 |
n = 180 |
n = 77 |
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| n = 207 |
n = 286 |
n = 107 |
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| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |||
| Linked to care at diagnosing facility | |||||||||
| Same day as HIV test | 371 (62) | 206 (60) | 114 (63) | 51 (66) | 0.53 | 109 (53) | 192 (67) | 70 (65) | 0.003 |
| Within 1 week of HIV test | 442 (74) | 244 (71) | 136 (76) | 62 (81) | 0.19 | 136 (66) | 224 (78) | 82 (77) | 0.005 |
| Within 1 month of HIV test | 494 (82) | 280 (82) | 149 (83) | 65 (84) | 0.83 | 159 (77) | 245 (86) | 90 (84) | 0.03 |
| Ever linked to care | 534 (89) | 303 (88) | 162 (90) | 69 (90) | 0.83 | 180 (87) | 255 (89) | 99 (93) | 0.33 |
| Initiated ART | 370 (62) | 212 (62) | 110 (61) | 48 (62) | 0.98 | 122 (59) | 177 (62) | 71 (66) | 0.44 |
| Retained at diagnosing facility | |||||||||
| 6 months after diagnosis | 366 (61) | 207 (60) | 113 (63) | 46 (60) | 0.83 | 117 (57) | 184 (64) | 65 (61) | 0.21 |
| 12 months after diagnosis | 332 (55) | 187 (55) | 105 (58) | 40 (52) | 0.58 | 103 (50) | 168 (59) | 61 (57) | 0.13 |
ART, antiretroviral therapy.