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Table 1 Weighted demographics of the tested women

From: Seroprevalence of Herpes Simplex Virus type-2 (HSV-2) among pregnant women who participated in a national HIV surveillance activity in Haiti

Characteristic**

Overall

HSV-2 positive

HSV-2 negative

P-values

na

% (95% CI)

n

% (95% CI)

n

% (95% CI)

Mean age

925

26.5 (26.0–27.1)

340

27.3 (26.3–28.3)

585

26.2 (25.5–26.8)

0.036*

Age category

      

0.031*

 14–19

135

15.2 (12.7–18.0)

36

10.9 (8.1–14.5)

99

17.1 (13.7–21.2)

 

 20–24

245

26.6 (23.2–30.4)

88

26.8 (19.0–36.4)

157

26.6 (24.0–29.2)

 

 25–29

256

27.7 (22.9–33.0)

92

26.3 (19.0–35.3)

164

28.3 (23.0–34.3)

 

 30–34

173

18.4 (16.1–20.9)

74

22.3 (17.5–27.9)

99

16.6 (14.2–19.4)

 

 35+

116

12.1 (9.7–15.1)

50

13.7 (10.3–18.0)

66

11.4 (9.1–14.2)

 

Residence

      

0.068

 Urban

508

54.4 (33.6–73.9)

195

57.6 (35.6–77.0)

313

53.0 (32.4–72.6)

 

 Rural

417

45.6 (26.1–66.4)

147

42.4 (23.0–64.4)

270

47.0 (27.4–67.6)

 

Marital status

      

0.484

 Married or widowed

246

26.0 (21.5–31.1)

88

25.2 (18.3–33.7)

158

26.4 (22.5–30.7)

 

 Living with partner

487

53.3 (49.0–57.4)

173

51.0 (44.1–57.8)

314

54.3 (49.6–58.9)

 

 Engaged

177

18.9 (14.4–24.4)

73

21.7 (16.6–27.8)

104

17.7 (12.8–23.8)

 

 Single

18

1.8 (0.9–3.5)

8

2.1 (0.6–7.8)

10

1.7 (0.8–3.3)

 

Education level

      

0.794

 Primary or none

417

44.7 (35.9–53.9)

157

45.3 (33.6–57.6)

260

44.5 (36.4–52.9)

 

 Secondary or higher

511

55.3 (46.1–64.1)

185

54.7 (42.4–66.4)

326

55.5 (47.1–63.6)

 

HIV status

      

<0.001*

 HIV-Positive

144

2.1 (1.6–2.8)

103

4.8 (3.9–6.0)

41

0.9 (0.6–1.3)

 

 HIV-Negative

784

97.9 (97.2–98.4)

239

95.2 (94.0–96.1)

545

99.2 (98.7–99.4)

 
  1. aThese prevalences exclude 3 observations where age was missing and 3 observations where residence was missing
  2. *Significance at alpha=0.05
  3. **This table only presents information on HSV-2 tested women, but those not tested for HSV-2 were not significantly different than those tested in terms of mean age, age group, residence, marital status, education level or HIV status