Table 3 Awareness and disclosure of HIV status among adolescents living with HIV from 11 ART clinics in Cambodia
Total (n = 328) | Males (n = 169) | Females (n = 159) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | P-value* | |
General understanding about HIV and AIDS | ||||
What is your disease? | 0.19 | |||
HIV/AIDS | 310 (94.5) | 157 (92.9) | 153 (96.2) | |
Don’t know | 18 (5.5) | 12 (7.1) | 6 (3.8) | |
Do you know how is this disease transmitted? | ||||
Don’t know | 8 (2.6) | 5 (3.2) | 3 (2.0) | 0.5 |
Mother to child | 207 (67.4) | 114 (72.0) | 95 (62.1) | 0.04 |
Unprotected sex | 236 (76.1) | 119 (75.8) | 117 (76.5) | 0.89 |
Sharing needles | 178 (57.4) | 90 (57.3) | 88 (57.5) | 0.97 |
Blood transfusion | 191 (61.6) | 82 (52.2) | 109 (71.2) | 0.001 |
Other | 65 (21.0) | 35 (22.3) | 30 (19.6) | 0.56 |
Awareness about self and disclosure | ||||
Do you know how you have been infected? | 0.97 | |||
From mother | 256 (82.6) | 189 (82.2) | 127 (83.0) | |
Don’t know | 54 (17.4) | 28 (17.8) | 26 (17.0) | |
Do you know what kind of medicine you have received? | 0.16 | |||
Pre-ART | 6 (1.9) | 1 (0.6) | 5 (3.3) | |
ART | 268 (86.5) | 141 (89.2) | 127 (83.6) | |
Don’t know | 36 (11.6) | 16 (10.1) | 20 (13.2) | |
Have you ever disclosed your HIV status to anyone? | 0.03 | |||
None | 167 (54.0) | 77 (48.7) | 90 (59.6) | |
Siblings | 72 (23.3) | 47 (29.7) | 25 (16.6) | |
School teachers | 6 (1.9) | 3 (1.9) | 3 (2.0) | |
Friends | 44 (14.2) | 18 (11.4) | 26 (17.2) | |
Other (please specify) | 20 (6.5) | 13 (8.2) | 7 (4.6) | |