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Table 2 Acceptability and effectiveness of targeted versus blanket PITC in three hospitals in Cameroon, ASPA study, July 2015–November 2016

From: Active case finding: comparison of the acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness of targeted versus blanket provider-initiated-testing and counseling of HIV among children and adolescents in Cameroon

Outcome

tPITC

bPITC

P*

Limbe

Abong-Mbang

Ndop

Total

Limbe

Abong-Mbang

Ndop

Total

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

Acceptability rate

100.0 (327/327)

99.7 (344/345)

99.6 (566/568)

99.8 (1616/1619)

99.2 (1013/1021)

99.3 (575/579)

98.0 (842/859)

98.8 (2430/2459)

0.0005

Feasibility rate

54.3 (300/552)

88.0 (352/400)

46.0 (477/1038)

56.7 (1129/1990)

78.9 (951/1205)

99.4 (619/623)

99.3 (895/901)

90.3 (2465/2729)

< 0.0001

HIV positivity rate

1.7 (5/300)

4.0 (14/352)

4.4 (21/477)

3.5 (40/1129)

1.5 (14/951)

3.4 (21/619)

0.6 (5/895)

1.6 (40/2465)

0.0008

Linkage rate

20.0 (1/5)

92.9 (12/14)

95.2 (20/21)

85.0 (33/40)

21.4 (3/14)

76.2 (16/21)

40.0 (2/5)

52.5 (21/40)

0.0018

  1. *p value comparing the outcome (total) of tPITC vs. bPITC in the 3 study sites