Table 3.
Frequency distributions of oral lesions observed during examinations of people living with HIV/AIDS (n = 200) by gender and educational status
| Lesions observed on clinical examination | Gender* (χ2 = 16.692, P = 0.016) | Level of education (χ2 = 23.055, P = 0.059) | Total | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Informal | Primary education | Secondary education | ||||||||
| % | n | % | n | % | N | % | n | % | n | % | n | |
| No abnormality | 28.2 | 40 | 71.8 | 102 | 14.8 | 21 | 68.3 | 97 | 16.9 | 24 | 71.0 | 142 |
| Kaposi’s sarcoma | 71.4 | 5 | 28.6 | 2 | 14.3 | 1 | 71.4 | 5 | 14.3 | 1 | 3.5 | 7 |
| Oral candidiasis | 13.3 | 2 | 86.7 | 13 | 33.3 | 5 | 53.3 | 8 | 13.3 | 2 | 7.5 | 15 |
| Oral hairy leukoplakia | 50.0 | 4 | 50.0 | 4 | 25.0 | 2 | 50.0 | 4 | 35.0 | 2 | 4.0 | 8 |
| Herpes simplex | 56.5 | 13 | 43.5 | 10 | 34.8 | 8 | 56.5 | 13 | 8.7 | 2 | 11.5 | 23 |
| Dry mouth | 33.3 | 1 | 66.7 | 2 | 66.7 | 2 | 33.3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.5 | 3 |
| Angular cheilitis | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 |
| ANUG | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 |
*
P < 0.05.
ANUG, acute necrotising ulcerative gingivitis.