Services for women’s sexual and reproductive health in India: an analysis of treatment-seeking for symptoms of reproductive tract infections in a nationally representative survey

Table 2 Proportion of women who reported symptoms of a reproductive tract infection^a and sought treatment, NFHS-3 and NFHS-4

	NFHS 3		NFHS 4
	%	95% CI	%	95% CI
Reported symptoms	11.2	(10.7,11.8)	11.3	(10.9,11.7)
Sought treatment (of symptomatic women)	40.4	(38.9,41.8)	39.2	(37.8,40.7)
Type of facility visited
Public facility	11.4	(10.5,12.3)	17.0	(15.9, 18.2)
Private facility	24.1	(22.9, 25.4)	22.4	(21.2, 23.7)
Others	7.4	(6.6,8.1)	2.2	(1.8,2.6)

^aReported symptoms of RTI include if the women experienced any one of the following: any infection due to sexual contact, genital sore/ulcer; or abnormal genital discharge

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