highly significantp=0.00001
There was very highly significant difference in the marital status of the two groups of study p=0.00001; HIV+ve had more divorcees and widows than HIV-ve (8.6% vs 1.9%), (25.7% vs3.8%) respectively and 88.9% (n=24/27) of the HIV+ve widows testified that their husbands died of HIV infections.