Volume 27, Number 1—January 2021
Synopsis
Impact of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination, Rwanda and Bhutan
Table 1
Comparison of female students in HPV surveys, by selected characteristics, Rwanda baseline (2013–2014) and repeat (2017) surveys and Bhutan baseline (2013) and repeat (2017) surveys*
Characteristic | Rwanda |
Bhutan |
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---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baseline survey | Repeat survey | Baseline survey | Repeat survey | ||
All |
912 |
1,087 |
973 |
909 |
|
Age-group, y | |||||
17–18 | 374 (41.0) | 536 (49.3) | 285 (29.3) | 347 (38.2) | |
19 | 274 (30.0) | 326 (30.0) | 337 (34.6) | 303 (33.3) | |
20–22 | 264 (29.0) | 225 (20.7) | 351 (36.1) | 259 (28.5) | |
χ2 |
p<0.001 |
p<0.001 |
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Place of birth | |||||
Capital | 497 (54.5) | 800 (73.6) | 309 (31.8) | 315 (34.7) | |
Outside capital | 415 (45.5) | 287 (26.4) | 663 (68.2) | 594 (65.3) | |
χ2 |
p<0.001 |
p = 0.187 |
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Place of living | |||||
With family or relative | 763 (83.7) | 936 (86.1) | 798 (82.0) | 765 (84.2) | |
Boarding school | 149 (16.3) | 151 (13.9) | 175 (18.0) | 144 (15.8) | |
χ2 |
p = 0.127 |
p = 0.215 |
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History of sexual intercourse | |||||
Never | 720 (79.0) | 729 (67.1) | 871 (89.5) | 760 (83.6) | |
Ever or prefer not to answer† | 192 (21.0) | 358 (32.9) | 102 (10.5) | 149 (16.4) | |
χ2 |
p<0.001 |
p<0.001 |
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Chlamydia trachomatis‡ | |||||
Negative | 892 (97.8) | 1047 (96.3) | 940 (96.6) | 872 (95.9) | |
Positive | 20 (2.2) | 40 (3.7) | 33 (3.4) | 37 (4.1) | |
χ2 |
p = 0.052 |
p = 0.437 |
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HPV vaccination | |||||
No | 519 (56.9) | 125 (11.5) | 77 (7.9) | 45 (5.0) | |
Yes | 393 (43.1) | 962 (88.5) | 896 (92.1) | 864 (95.0) | |
χ2 |
p<0.001 |
p = 0.009 |
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Age at vaccination§ | |||||
<14 | 12 (3.1) | 412 (46.5) | 12 (2.0) | 569 (87.4) | |
>14 | 378 (96.9) | 474 (53.5) | 591 (98.0) | 82 (12.6) | |
χ2 |
p<0.001 |
p<0.001 |
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No. doses§ | |||||
1 | NA | 52 (5.5) | NA | 84 (9.9) | |
2–3 | NA | 901 (94.5) | NA | 769 (90.2) |
*Values are no. (%) except as indicated. HPV, human papillomavirus; NA, not assessed. †Includes 4 (Rwanda baseline), and 38 (Rwanda repeat), 43 (Bhutan baseline), and 20 (Bhutan repeat) students who preferred not to answer this question. ‡Detected by using E7 PCR bead-based multiplex genotyping assay. §Does not add up to the total because of missing values.