TY - BOOK ID - 134264816 TI - The Association Between Remarriage and HIV Infection : Evidence From National HIV Surveys in Africa AU - de Walque, Damien AU - De Walque, Damien AU - Kline, Rachel PY - 2009 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Aging KW - AIDS epidemic KW - AIDS HIV KW - Disease Control and Prevention KW - Diseases KW - Epidemic KW - Epidemics KW - Females KW - Gender KW - Gender and Health KW - Health Surveys KW - Health, Nutrition and Population KW - HIV KW - HIV AIDS and Business KW - HIV Infection KW - HIV positive KW - HIV testing KW - HIV transmission KW - HIV/AIDS KW - Human Immunodeficiency virus KW - Immune Deficiency KW - Immunodeficiency KW - Population Policies KW - Prevalence KW - Sexually Transmitted Diseases KW - Sexually Transmitted Infections KW - Syndromes UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134264816 AB - 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. ER -