Investigating health service availability and readiness for antenatal testing and treatment for HIV and syphilis in Papua New Guinea

Table 5 Multivariate association between health facility readiness and the proportion of antenatal clinic attendees tested and treated for HIV and syphilis

Variable	Tested for HIV^a			HIV seropositives treated^b			Tested for Syphilis^c
	Coefficient [95% CI]	t	P> \|t\|	Coefficient [95% CI]	t	P> \|t\|	Coefficient [95% CI]	t	P> \|t\|
Readiness score	29.59 [0 – 87.06]	1.03	0.307	-3.12 [0 – 16.62]	-0.32	0.753	-0.26 [0 – 16.94]	-0.03	0.976
Health facility type
Hospital	Reference Category
District/rural hospital	35.05 [0 – 75.73]	1.72	0.090	-0.67 [0 – 9.00]	-0.14	0.890	2.17 [0 – 15.67]	0.32	0.749
Health centre	24.38 [1.75 – 47.02]	2.15	0.035	1.07 [0 – 10.43]	0.23	0.820	-5.42 [0 – 10.03]	-0.70	0.486
Public/ Church run
Church	Reference Category
Public	8.83 [0 – 23.30]	1.22	0.227	3.07 [0 – 8.10]	1.22	0.228	0.62 [-0– 5.09]	0.28	0.783
Size of catchment
>10 000	Reference Category
10 000 – 19 999	8.85 [0 – 24.41]	0.55	0.260	5.67 [0 – 11.75]	1.86	0.067	7.14 [0 – 14.28]	2.00	0.050
20 000 – 29 999	22.17 [8.51 – 35.84]	2.71	0.002	-0.62 [0 – 5.21]	-0.21	0.833	8.07 [0 – 17.34]	1.74	0.087
30 000 – 49 999	2.53 [0 – 19.24]	1.00	0.763	-0.52 [0 – 6.56]	-0.15	0.883	-4.71 [0 – 2.46]	-1.31	0.194
< 50 000	22.23 [0 – 46.50]	2.04	0.072	1.51 [0 – 8.74]	0.42	0.678	-6.86 [0 – 1.80]	-1.58	0.118
Clinicians employed	1.14 [0 – 9.95]	0.30	0.768	2.13 [0 – 5.42]	1.29	0.202	2.11 [0 – 5.63]	1.20	0.236

^aNumber of observations: 72; R-squared: 0.3065; Prob>F: 0.0119; RMSE: 23.341
^bNumber of observations: 72; R-squared: 0.1354; Prob>F: 0.3914; RMSE: 8.217
^cNumber of observations: 72; R-squared: 0.2547; Prob>F: 0.0441; RMSE: 11.805
CI: Confidence Interval; P> |t|: P-value of t-statistic; Prob>F: probability of F statistic; RMSE: Root Mean Square Error; t: t-statistic

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