Table 2.

Determinants of adherence to quarterly follow-up visits (generalized estimating equations regressions)

	Univariate analysis			Multivariate analysis
	β	95% CI	P	aβ	95% CI	P
City
Abidjan	Reference			Reference
Bamako	0.13	0.10; 0.17	< 0.001	0.17	0.11; 0.22	< 0.001
Ouagadougou	0.10	0.06; 0.14	< 0.001	0.05	−0.01; 0.12	0.107
Lomé	0.21	0.17; 0.26	< 0.001	0.15	0.08; 0.21	< 0.001
Observation time (per 1-month increase)	− 0.01	− 0.01; − 0.007	< 0.001	-0.01	−0.02; − 0.01	< 0.001
Age (years)
≤ 25	Reference
> 25	−0.01	− 0.04; 0.01	0.288
Educational level
No school/Koranic	Reference
Primary/secondary/university	−0.03	−0.07; 0.02	0.222
Marital status
Single/divorced/separated/widowed	Reference
Married/free union	−0.02	− 0.04; 0.004	0.109
Self-defined sexual orientation
Transsexual/transgender	Reference
Homosexual or gay/heterosexual/bisexual	0.009	−0.03; 0.04	0.620
Self-identified gender
A man/a boy	Reference
Other	−0.001	−0.02; 0.01	0.853
Sexual attraction
To men	Reference
To men and women/to women	0.0004	−0.01; 0.01	0.945
Condom use during insertive anal sexa
Consistent	Reference
Inconsistent	−0.003	− 0.02; 0.01	0.694
No insertive anal sex	−0.002	−0.02; 0.01	0.765
Condom use during receptive anal sexa
Consistent	Reference
Inconsistent	−0.004	−0.02; 0.01	0.615
No receptive anal sex	−0.004	−0.02; 0.01	0.560
Received payment (whether financial or other) for transactional sex with male partnersa
Never	Reference
Sometimes	0.002	−0.01; 0.01	0.760
Always	−0.002	−0.03; 0.03	0.894
Provided payment (whether financial or other) for transactional sex with male partnersa
Never	Reference
Sometimes	−0.0005	−0.02; 0.02	0.955
Always	−0.009	−0.06; 0.08	0.804
Group sex with male partners
Never	Reference
Once	−0.01	−0.04; 0.01	0.170
Twice or more	−0.02	− 0.05; 0.01	0.109
Number of male sexual partnersa
1–5	Reference
≥ 6	−0.0002	−0.01; 0.11	0.968
Received psychological support
No	Reference
Yes	0.007	−0.01; 0.22	0.353
History of HIV screening
Yes	Reference
No	0.05	0.01; 0.09	0.018
STI (other than HIV) symptoms
No	Reference
Yes	−0.004	−0.02; 0.02	0.712

Abbreviations: CI confidence interval, STI sexually transmitted infection

^aDuring the previous 6 months