O1-S07.02 Characteristics of women testing positive for rectal STIs using self-collected mailed specimens

Abstract

in married women, and 5.4% (4.1% to 7.0%) in divorced/widowed women. HIV prevalence was higher in women with concurrent partners than in those without (55.7% vs 25.4%; aOR, 3.26, 2.08 to 5.11) even after excluding women who had not started sex (aOR, 2.83; p<0.001). For males, non-spousal concurrency fell from 11.7% (95% CI 10.8% to 12.7%) in 1998e2000 to 6.1% (5.3% to 7.0%) in 2001e2003 and 4.3% (3.7% to 5.0%) in 2006e2008; prevalence of spousal concurrency fell from 3.7% (3.2% to 4.3%) to 2.6% (2.0% to 3.2%) to 1.3% (1.0% to 1.7%) over the same period. For females, concurrency declined from 1.7% (1.4% to 2.1%) in 1998e2000 to 1.0% (0.7% to 1.3%) in 2001e2003 and 0.5% (0.3% to 0.7%) in 2006e2008. Conclusion A 2/3rds reduction in (mainly non-spousal) concurrency may have contributed to HIV decline in east Zimbabwe.