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Table 2 Before and after a targeted intervention: comparisons of knowledge, HIV sexual risk behaviors and practices

From: Scaling up combined community-based HIV prevention interventions targeting truck drivers in Morocco: effectiveness on HIV testing and counseling

 

2007

2012

 
  

Exposed to the intervention

 
  

Never

Once

Twice or more

Total

p*

P**

(n = 210)

(n = 63)

(n = 180)

Knowledge of HIV prevention methods

38.8%

59.0%

71.4%

79.4%

68.6%

<10 −3

<10 −3

Condom use during the most recent sexual encounter with a sex worker

35.5%

40.5%

68.3%

78.5%

60.3%

<10 −3

0.34

Systematic condom use with a sex worker in the previous 12 months

12.8%

10.5%

19.0

35.0

21.4%

<10 −3

0.38

Voluntary HIV testing and counselling in the previous 12 months

4.3%

6.7%

27.0%

57.8%

29.6%

<10 −3

0.20

Knowledge of non-AIDS STI symptoms (men)

24.6%

25.7%

31.7%

36.7%

30.7%

0.02

0.75

Knowledge of non-AIDS STI symptoms (women)

13.4%

9.5%

14.3%

20.0%

14.2%

0.03

0.15

Knowledge that the results of HIV test would remain confidential

23.3%

75.1%

83.9%

92.2%

83.2%

<10 −3

<10 −3

  1. *General comparison.
  2. **Comparison between 2007 and unexposed in 2012.