Redefining the Mode of HIV Transmission through Analysis of Risk Attribution among the Reported HIV Cases from 1993 to 2021 in Bhutan

Table 3

Mapping of risk factors against the Mode of Transmission.

Risk factor	N	Percent (%)	MoT
Injecting drug use (IDU)	3	0.68	Parenteral
Nosocomial (NOS)	2	0.45
Skin-penetration (SP)	2	0.45
Subtotal	7	1.58
Heterosexual contact reported by a female (HETF)	19	4.29	Heterosexual
Heterosexual contact reported by males (HETM)	8	1.81
Subtotal	27	6.09
Heterosexual contact with HIV-infected person (HETHIV)	124	27.99	High-risk heterosexual (HRH)
Sex workers (SW)	56	12.64
Heterosexual contact with HIV with a person injecting drug use (HETIDU)	1	0.23
injects	0	0.00
Heterosexual contact with sex workers/clients of sex workers (HETSW)	182	41.08
Subtotal	363	81.94
Homosexual contacts (HOM)	6	1.35	Homosexual
Subtotal	6	1.35
Mother to child transmission (MTCT)	39	8.80	MTCT
Total	39	8.80
Unknown risk	1	0.23	Unknown
Subtotal	1	0.23
Overall total risk count	443	100