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Table 2 Response to modes of acquiring RTI's and names of RTI's

From: Female reproductive tract infections: understandings and care seeking behaviour among women of reproductive age in Lagos, Nigeria

Characteristics

Frequency

Percentage

Modes of acquiring RTI's

  

Sexual intercourse

215

44.1

Poor hygiene

121

24.8

Toilet

217

44.6

Unsafe abortion

99

20.3

Unsafe delivery

84

17.2

Genital tract procedures

69

14.2

Names of RTI's

  

Syphylis

78

16.0

Gonorrhoea

114

23.4

HIV/AIDS

36

7.4

Staphylococcus

41

8.4

Candida

48

9.9

Hepatitis

1

0.2

Trichomonas

7

1.4