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Table 4 Gender-based discrimination and violence among transgender women who had and who had no access to community-based HIV programs

From: Access to community-based HIV services among transgender women in Cambodia: findings from a national survey

Gender-based discrimination and violence

Total (n = 1375)

Access to community-based HIV programs in the past 3 months*

No (n = 756)

Yes (n = 619)

P-value†

Co-workers/classmates are supportive regarding transgender identity

1235 (89.8)

667 (88.2)

568 (91.8)

0.03

Difficulties in getting a job

578 (42.0)

302 (39.9)

276 (44.6)

0.08

Lost a job

334 (24.3)

176 (23.3)

158 (25.5)

0.33

Denied/thrown out of a housing

249 (18.1)

127 (16.8)

122 (19.7)

0.16

Having difficulties in getting HIV services

117 (8.5)

48 (6.3)

69 (11.1)

0.002

Having difficulties in getting health services

125 (9.1)

61 (8.1)

64 (10.3)

0.15

Had been physically abused

325 (23.6)

158 (20.9)

167 (27.0)

0.008

Had been sexually abuse or assault

538 (39.1)

267 (35.3)

271 (43.8)

0.001

Had been arrested by police/authorities

144 (10.5)

64 (8.5)

80 (12.9)

0.007

Feeling fearful of being arrested by police

342 (24.9)

180 (23.8)

162 (26.2)

0.31

  1. Values are numbers of subjects (%) for categorical variables
  2. *Defined by having been reached by a community-based HIV program with any one of the services
  3. †Chi-square test (or Fisher’s exact test when a cell count was smaller than 5) was used