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Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 --- Epidemics --- Political aspects
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Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 --- Epidemics --- Political aspects
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Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 --- Epidemics --- Political aspects
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Chorea, Epidemic --- Chorea, Epidemic. --- Korea (sjukdom) --- Social conditions. --- History --- Historia --- 1500-1599. --- France --- Strasbourg (France) --- Social conditions
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The literature shows that divorced, separated, and widowed individuals in Africa are at significantly increased risk for HIV. Using nationally representative data from 13 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, this paper confirms that formerly married individuals are at significantly higher risk for HIV. The study goes further by examining individuals who have remarried. The results show that remarried individuals form a large portion of the population - usually larger than the divorced, separated, or widowed - and that they also have higher than average HIV prevalence. This large number of high-risk remarried individuals is an important source of vulnerability and further infection that needs to be acknowledged and taken into account in prevention strategies.
Aging --- AIDS epidemic --- AIDS HIV --- Disease Control and Prevention --- Diseases --- Epidemic --- Epidemics --- Females --- Gender --- Gender and Health --- Health Surveys --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- HIV --- HIV AIDS and Business --- HIV Infection --- HIV positive --- HIV testing --- HIV transmission --- HIV/AIDS --- Human Immunodeficiency virus --- Immune Deficiency --- Immunodeficiency --- Population Policies --- Prevalence --- Sexually Transmitted Diseases --- Sexually Transmitted Infections --- Syndromes
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The literature shows that divorced, separated, and widowed individuals in Africa are at significantly increased risk for HIV. Using nationally representative data from 13 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, this paper confirms that formerly married individuals are at significantly higher risk for HIV. The study goes further by examining individuals who have remarried. The results show that remarried individuals form a large portion of the population - usually larger than the divorced, separated, or widowed - and that they also have higher than average HIV prevalence. This large number of high-risk remarried individuals is an important source of vulnerability and further infection that needs to be acknowledged and taken into account in prevention strategies.
Aging --- AIDS epidemic --- AIDS HIV --- Disease Control and Prevention --- Diseases --- Epidemic --- Epidemics --- Females --- Gender --- Gender and Health --- Health Surveys --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- HIV --- HIV AIDS and Business --- HIV Infection --- HIV positive --- HIV testing --- HIV transmission --- HIV/AIDS --- Human Immunodeficiency virus --- Immune Deficiency --- Immunodeficiency --- Population Policies --- Prevalence --- Sexually Transmitted Diseases --- Sexually Transmitted Infections --- Syndromes
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Understanding the demographic and socioeconomic patterns of the prevalence and incidence of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa is crucial for developing programs and policies to combat HIV/AIDS. This paper looks critically at the methods and analytical challenges to study the links between socioeconomic and demographic status and HIV/AIDS. Some of the misconceptions about the HIV/AIDS epidemic are discussed and unusual empirical evidence from the existing body of work is presented. Several important messages emerge from the results. First, the study of the link between socioeconomic status and HIV faces a range of challenges related to definitions, samples, and empirical methods. Second, given the large gaps in evidence and the changing nature of the epidemic, there is a need to continue to improve the evidence base on the link between demographic and socioeconomic status and the prevalence and incidence of HIV/AIDS. Finally, it is difficult to generalize results across countries. As the results presented here and in other studies based on Demographic and Health Survey datasets show, few consistent and significant patterns of prevalence by socioeconomic and demographic status are evident.
AIDS HIV --- Condom --- Condom use --- Condoms --- Demographers --- Demographic factors --- Disease Control and Prevention --- Epidemic --- Fertility --- Gender --- Gender and Health --- Health Monitoring and Evaluation --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- HIV --- HIV infection --- Household surveys --- Human Development --- Multiple partners --- National population --- Policy Research --- Population Policies --- Public Services --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual behaviors --- Socioeconomic status
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Based on nationally representative samples from 13 Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper reinforces and expands previous findings that condom use in general is low in this region, men report using condoms more frequently than women, and unmarried individuals report they use condoms more frequently than married individuals with their spouse. Based on descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate analyses, the authors also demonstrate to a degree not previously shown in the current literature that married men from most countries report using condoms with extramarital partners about as frequently as unmarried men. However, married women from most countries included use condoms with extramarital partners less frequently than unmarried women. This result is especially troubling because marriage usually ensures regular sexual intercourse, providing more opportunities to pass HIV from extramarital partner to spouse than an unmarried person who may also have multiple partners but not as regular sexual intercourse.
Adolescent Health --- AIDS HIV --- Condom --- Condom Use --- Condoms --- Epidemic --- Extramarital sex --- Gender --- Gender and Health --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- HIV --- Human Development --- Infection rates --- Law and Development --- Married men --- Married women --- Multiple partners --- Policy Research --- Population Policies --- Prevention efforts --- Progress --- Public Services --- Sexual intercourse --- Spouse --- Unmarried men --- Unmarried women
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Understanding the demographic and socioeconomic patterns of the prevalence and incidence of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa is crucial for developing programs and policies to combat HIV/AIDS. This paper looks critically at the methods and analytical challenges to study the links between socioeconomic and demographic status and HIV/AIDS. Some of the misconceptions about the HIV/AIDS epidemic are discussed and unusual empirical evidence from the existing body of work is presented. Several important messages emerge from the results. First, the study of the link between socioeconomic status and HIV faces a range of challenges related to definitions, samples, and empirical methods. Second, given the large gaps in evidence and the changing nature of the epidemic, there is a need to continue to improve the evidence base on the link between demographic and socioeconomic status and the prevalence and incidence of HIV/AIDS. Finally, it is difficult to generalize results across countries. As the results presented here and in other studies based on Demographic and Health Survey datasets show, few consistent and significant patterns of prevalence by socioeconomic and demographic status are evident.
AIDS HIV --- Condom --- Condom use --- Condoms --- Demographers --- Demographic factors --- Disease Control and Prevention --- Epidemic --- Fertility --- Gender --- Gender and Health --- Health Monitoring and Evaluation --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- HIV --- HIV infection --- Household surveys --- Human Development --- Multiple partners --- National population --- Policy Research --- Population Policies --- Public Services --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual behaviors --- Socioeconomic status
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Based on nationally representative samples from 13 Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper reinforces and expands previous findings that condom use in general is low in this region, men report using condoms more frequently than women, and unmarried individuals report they use condoms more frequently than married individuals with their spouse. Based on descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate analyses, the authors also demonstrate to a degree not previously shown in the current literature that married men from most countries report using condoms with extramarital partners about as frequently as unmarried men. However, married women from most countries included use condoms with extramarital partners less frequently than unmarried women. This result is especially troubling because marriage usually ensures regular sexual intercourse, providing more opportunities to pass HIV from extramarital partner to spouse than an unmarried person who may also have multiple partners but not as regular sexual intercourse.
Adolescent Health --- AIDS HIV --- Condom --- Condom Use --- Condoms --- Epidemic --- Extramarital sex --- Gender --- Gender and Health --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- HIV --- Human Development --- Infection rates --- Law and Development --- Married men --- Married women --- Multiple partners --- Policy Research --- Population Policies --- Prevention efforts --- Progress --- Public Services --- Sexual intercourse --- Spouse --- Unmarried men --- Unmarried women
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