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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...
Association between experience of sexual coercion and sexual behaviour: insights from the 2008 Botswana AIDS impact survey III
Sexual coercion sexual behaviour
2015/7/28
Little is known about the prevalence and the effect of sexual coercion on risky sexual behaviour in the context of Botswana. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between the experi...
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...
Gender Disparity in HIV Prevalence: A National-Level Analysis of the Association between Gender Inequality and the Feminisation of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
HIV/AIDS gender inequality feminisation
2015/7/27
The HIV pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa is often described as undergoing a ‘feminisation’ in which female HIV prevalence exceeds that of male in most age groups and countries. However, much of the vari...
HIV/AIDS-related stigma and HIV test uptake in Ghana: evidence from the 2008 Demographic and Health Survey
HIV/AIDS Stigma HIV test uptake
2015/7/27
The study examined the association between HIV test uptake and socioeconomic characteristics of individuals, including HIV-related stigma behaviours. The study also investigated the socioeconomic dete...
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...
Information-field differentials and HIV/AIDS notional inclinations of mobility-differentiated population groups: clues from a Lagos study
Information-field sexuality-notions
2015/7/23
This paper aims at filling identified perspective-cum-analytical-framework gap on sexuality-risk analysis between mobile and immobile population groups. It originated from a multi-dimensional study on...
Risk perception for HIV/AIDS infection among premarital sexually initiated youth in Nigeria
Risk Perception HIV/AIDS Premarital Sexual
2015/7/22
This paper examines perception of risk of HIV/AIDS infection among 1,308 premarital sexually initiated youth aged 15-24, with data from the 1999 and 2003 Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys. Buildi...
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...
Policies to minimize the impact of AIDS must address three contexts: the response to prevention and control measures; the morbidity, mortality and social consequences resulting from HIV infection; and...
Data and Decision-making Demography's Contribution to Understanding AIDS in Africa
Data and Decision-making Demography AIDS Africa
2015/6/25
The challenges posed by HIV are relatively new to demographers and policy planners alike. In February 1997, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and the University of Natal b...
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...
Intergenerational Transfers in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Evidence from Rural Malawi
age patterns of transfers intergenerational transfers Malawi MLSFH SSA transfer flows
2014/11/21
Background: Intergenerational transfer patterns in sub-Saharan Africa are poorly understood, despite the alleged importance of support networks to ameliorate the complex implications of the HIV/AIDS e...
More on the cohort-component model of population projection in the context of HIV/AIDS: A Leslie matrix representation and new estimates
population projection matrix representation
2014/11/20
This article presents an extension of the cohort-component model of population projection
(CCMPP) first formulated by Heuveline (2003) that is capable of modeling a population
affected by HIV....
