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A Microsimulation Study of the Effects of Divorce and Remarriage on Lifetime Risks of HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi
Divorce Remarriage Lifetime Risks HIV/AIDS Rural Malawi
2016/3/18
The prevalence of HIV infection varies with age and marital status with infection rates being influenced by the age- and marital-status-related frequency of intercourse and, most obviously, the infect...
Subjective Expectations in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Malawi
HIV/AIDS Malawi Literacy Numeracy Mortality Risk-reduction strategies
2016/3/18
In this paper we present a newly-developed interactive elicitation methodology to collect probabilistic expectations in a developing country context with low levels of literacy and numeracy, and we ev...
How Beliefs about HIV Status Affect Risky Behaviors:Evidence from Malawi
HIV Testing Results Beliefs MDICP Sexual behavior Disease prevalence Risk Exposure
2016/3/18
Many HIV testing programs in Africa and elsewhere aim to reduce risk-taking behaviors by providing individuals with information about their own HIV status. This paper examines how beliefs about own HI...
The Demography of Mental Health Among Mature Adults in a Low-Income High HIV-Prevalence Context
Demography Mental Health Malawi HIV Stress Con-Communicable Diseases. Sub-Saharan Africa Adults
2016/3/17
While a nascent body of research investigates the shift in sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA's) disease burden towards
non-communicable diseases (NCDs), very few studies have investigated mental health, spec...
Support for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) for HIV Prevention among Men and Women in Zimbabwe
HIV prevention medical male circumcision
2015/7/28
Medical male circumcision was introduced in Zimbabwe in 2009 as an additional HIV prevention method. This study sought to investigate support for the roll-out of voluntary medical male circumcision (V...
Tanzanian men’s gender attitudes, HIV knowledge, and risk behaviours
Tanzania HIV risks alcohol
2015/7/27
This study uses data from the 2004-05 Tanzanian Demographic and Health Survey to examine whether men’s traditional gender role attitudes contribute to their sexual risk behaviours for HIV. Logistic ...
Attitude towards sexual control among women in conjugal union in the era of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Mahikeng, South Africa
Sex Sexual control HIV/AIDS
2015/7/27
Husbands continue to be the greatest source of sexually transmitted infections including HIV to their wives. Using a survey of 568 respondents and 33 in-depth interviews, this study examined the attit...
Factors associated with HIV testing and receiving results during antenatal care in Tanzania
HIV MTCT PMTCT
2015/7/27
Mother to child transmission of HIV (MTCT) control goal is achievable when all pregnant mothers test for HIV and collect the results enabling timely eligibility and access to anti-retroviral therapy (...
Effectiveness of using comic books to communicate HIV and AIDS messages to in-school youth:Insights from a pilot intervention study in Nairobi,Kenya
HIV and AIDS Communication Comic books In-school young people Kenya
2015/7/24
This paper uses data from a pilot pre- and post-intervention study that was conducted in eight secondary schools in Nairobi, Kenya, between 2010 and 2011 to examine the effectiveness of using comic bo...
Gender and HIV-related discrimination in the health sector in Nigeria
Discrimination Gender Health sector HIV/AIDS Lagos PLWHA Socio-economic status
2015/7/22
This study explored the influence of gender on HIV-related discrimination in health care facilities in Lagos state from the perspectives of people living with HIV/AIDS. It hypothesized that women were...
Report on the IUSSP Seminar on “Poverty and HIV/AIDS” held at the University of Cape
Poverty and HIV/AIDS University of Cape
2015/6/26
This seminar was organized as an activity of the IUSSP Panel on Population and Poverty. The members of the panel are David Lam of the University of Michigan, Murray Leibbrandt of the University of Cap...
Seminar on Potential and Actual Contributions of Behavioural Change to Curbing the Spread of HIV
Potential and Actual Contributions Behavioural Change Spread of HIV
2015/6/26
Close to 40 million people world wide are now estimated to be HIV positive, two-thirds of these being in sub-Saharan Africa where transmission is largely through heterosexual sex. In the absence of a ...
Contributions of Behavioural Change to Curbing the Spread of HIV
Contributions Curbing the Spread HIV
2015/6/25
Sub-Saharan Africa, and especially the countries of southern and east Africa, is the region worst affected globally by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which leads to the autoimmune deficiency ...
When the group encourages extramarital sex: Difficulties in HIV/AIDS prevention in rural Malawi
AIDS/HIV extramarital fixed-effects Malawi marriage panel data sexual intercourse social networks Sub-Saharan Africa
2014/11/24
Background: Recent research on the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has highlighted the relevance of married individuals‘ extramarital sexual behavior for the spread of the disease. At the same time...
Perceived risk of HIV infection and mental health in rural Malawi
AIDS/HIV Malawi mental health risk perception
2014/11/24
Background: The emerging literature on HIV/AIDS and mental health in sub-Saharan Africa stresses that HIV-positive status is significantly related to mental illness. However, the literature has neglec...