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Table 3 HIV risk behaviors and HIV testing among transgender women who had and who had no access to community-based HIV programs

From: Access to community-based HIV services among transgender women in Cambodia: findings from a national survey

HIV risk behaviors in the past 3 months

Total (n = 1375)

Access to community-based HIV programs in the past 3 months*

No (n = 756)

Yes (n = 619)

P-value†

Sex with women

118 (8.6)

76 (10.1)

42 (6.8)

0.03

Sex with women for money or gifts

22 (1.6)

12 (1.6)

10 (1.6)

0.91

Usual role in anal sex with men

   

0.009

Insertive

29 (2.1)

9 (1.3)

20 (3.3)

 

Receptive

1045 (87.5)

626 (88.0)

519 (86.8)

 

Both

135 (10.3)

76 (10.7)

59 (9.9)

 

Mean number of male partners not in exchange for money or gifts

23.5 ± 39.2

24.1 ± 40.7

22.9 ± 37.4

0.53

Always used condoms with men not in exchange for money or gifts

703 (58.4)

421 (64.7)

282 (51.1)

< 0.001

Sex with men in exchange for money or gifts

495 (37.8)

261 (36.7)

234 (39.1)

0.37

Mean number of male partners in exchange for money or gifts

2.7 ± 10.1

2.6 ± 9.0

2.9 ± 11.3

0.58

Always used condoms with men in exchange for money or gifts

246 (60.0)

112 (52.1)

134 (68.7)

0.001

Had been diagnosed with an STI

193 (14.0)

107 (14.2)

86 (13.9)

0.89

Had HIV test in lifetime

1107 (80.5)

529 (70.0)

578 (93.4)

< 0.001

Had HIV test in the past 6 months

676 (60.1)

212 (28.0)

464 (75.0)

< 0.001

Mean months since last HIV test

8.6 ± 12.3

12.0 ± 14.8

5.4 ± 8.2

< 0.001

  1. Abbreviations: HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; STI, sexually transmitted infections
  2. Values are numbers of subjects (%) for categorical variables and means ± standard deviation (SD) for continuous variables
  3. *Defined by having been reached by a community-based HIV program with any one of the services
  4. †Chi-square test (or Fisher’s exact test when a cell count was smaller than 5) was used for categorical variables and independent Student’s t-test for continuous variables