Table 2. Distribution of barriers to accessing care for HIV and TB services, stratified by gender.

	Gender
Barrier	Male (n = 352)	Female (n = 434)	p-value	RR 95% CI
Cost of care	70 (19.9%)	89 (20.5%)	0.847	1.03 (0.75–1.41)
Waiting time	154 (43.8%)	185 (42.6%)	0.812	0.97 (0.79–1.21)
Lack of sufficient information	71 (20.2%)	77 (17.7%)	0.436	0.88 (0.64–1.21)
Accessibility (distance)	47 (13.4%)	74 (17.1%)	0.190	1.28 (0.89–1.84)
Attitudes of health workers	88 (25.0%)	175 (40.3%)	<0.001	1.61 (1.25–2.08)
Medicine out of stock	46 (13.1%)	57 (13.1%)	0.980	1.01 (0.68–1.48)
Inability to leave studies	47 (13.4%)	89 (20.5%)	0.017	1.54 (1.08–2.19)
Difficulties in language expression	16 (4.6%)	15 (3.5%)	0.446	0.76 (0.38–1.54)
Fear of finding out	47 (13.4%)	51 (11.8%)	0.528	0.88 (0.59–1.31)
Stigma	23 (6.5%)	22 (5.1%)	0.395	0.78 (0.43–1.39)

Abbreviations: RR Relative risk; CI confidence interval; bold p<0.05.