Partner/partnership characteristics.
*The numbers are mismatched due to inconsistency in participants’ self-report (If 12 participants had 0 partners, then the total number of participants who had vaginal sex in the last 3 months should be 235)Overall, 82.2% of participants reported having had sex at least once in the three months preceding screening. Among these participants, vaginal sex occurred four times per month on average (IQR 2,7). Condom use at last sex was reported by a little more than half of participants, with minimal variation by site. Although only 19 participants reported having anal sex in the 3 months prior to screening, 84% of those participants reported having used a condom during the last anal sex act. The majority of participants reported having had only one partner in the three months before screening, whereas 36% reported multiple partners. More than one-quarter of the participants reported engaging in transactional sex, which varied by site from 12% in Cape Town to 55% in Kampala.Most participants had disclosed their intention to use oral PrEP or the ring during the study to female family members (87.0%), friends (79.4%), and primary partners (60.3%), whereas only 23.9% of participants told male family members about intention to use the products (