Table 1.

Summary of percentage of women empowerment and HIV testing uptake, by country

Country	Decision making (1 or 2) %	Decision making (3) %	Wife beating attitude %	HIV testing %
Angola	28.1	65.4	71.4	71.6
Burkina Faso	40.0	31.8	60.3	58.0
Benin	36.5	36.3	65.4	46.9
Burundi	26.7	60.3	38.8	49.2
DR Congo	40.0	33.6	23.0	47.6
Côte d’Ivoire	34.1	23.7	48.5	47.6
Cameroon	46.7	23.8	51.0	43.6
Gabon	43.7	44.4	47.0	56.7
Ghana	31.7	61.6	70.0	39.4
Gambia	44.4	39.3	37.0	41.6
Guinea	32.5	30.4	28.0	60.0
Kenya	34.5	56.0	55.5	71.3
Comoros	30.5	34.9	57.0	43.5
Liberia	25.0	66.2	56.0	47.9
Lesotho	31.6	65.4	66.8	74.9
Madagascar	23.5	74.3	66.3	34.0
Mali	26.7	10.4	17.7	54.0
Mozambique	36.2	49.4	74.4	68.3
Niger	31.9	12.3	37.5	41.1
Namibia	19.2	75.3	67.9	68.0
Rwanda	27.8	65.7	60.0	52.7
Sierra Leone	23.5	45.8	29.6	39.8
Senegal	29.7	14.0	48.9	31.7
Swaziland	45.4	37.6	76.9	59.7
Chad	44.0	17.6	0.0	59.3
Togo	44.8	29.4	68.0	39.6
Uganda	35.6	51.0	50.7	73.2
Zimbabwe	24.6	72.0	61.7	70.7
Congo	52.0	28.5	38.0	45.3
Sao Tome et Principe	37.3	47.3	76.7	50.0
Ethiopia	19.0	70.6	33.0	57.5
Zambia	34.3	53.9	50.3	68.8
South Africa	9.9	87.5	94.4	75.7

Decision making 1 or 2 refers to women who participated in one or two of the three decision topics, namely large household purchase, visit to family or relative and own health care alone or with her partner. Decision making 3 indicates women who participated alone or jointly with her partner on all of the three-decision topic mentioned above. Wife-beating attitude refers to the proportion of women who disagreed to all of the five” is wife-beating justified if ” questions: (a) burning food, (b) arguing with him, (c) going out without telling him, (d) neglecting the children, and (e) refusing to have sexual intercourse with him.