Prevalence and Correlates of Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Knowledge among Women Aged 15–49 Years in Pakistan-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Prevalence and Correlates of Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Knowledge among Women Aged 15–49 Years in Pakistan

Published:2022-10-31 Issue: Volume: Page:167-172
ISSN:2790-9352
Container-title:Pakistan Journal of Health Sciences
language:
Short-container-title:PJHS

Author:

Siddique Hira,Abbas Saira,Rizwan Safdar Muhammad,Atif Ayoub Muhammad,Shahzad Mahnoor

Abstract

Pakistan is ranked second among the countries in pacific Asia where the AIDS epidemic is spreading rapidly. Objectives: This study examines the comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge and measures the relationship between knowledge and socio-demographic characteristics of women aged 15-49 in Pakistan. Methods: It is based on secondary data analysis of the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2017-2018. Data were collected from 50,495 married women aged 15-49 through the questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were applied to summarize the data while bivariate analysis was conducted to find out the correlations. Results: The study found that Pakistani women have a low level of knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS. Moreover, a significant relationship was found between comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge and wealth index as well as with the level of access to information. It shows that women from the richest households with moderate access to information had a high level of HIV/AIDS knowledge. Conclusions: Social stigmas regarding HIV/AIDS are rooted in Pakistani traditional society which is consequently the cause of the lack of knowledge regarding this epidemic among people in Pakistan

Publisher

CrossLinks International Publishers

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