Looking for change in response to the AIDS epidemic: trends in AIDS knowledge and sexual behavior in Zambia, 1990 through 1998
| Autor: | Mulendema S, S S Bloom, Banda C, G Songolo, A E Cunningham, J T Boerma |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Gerontology
Adult Male Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Adolescent Sexual Behavior Population Developing country Zambia law.invention Condom Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) law Premarital sex Medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) education Health Education education.field_of_study Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome business.industry HIV Sexually Transmitted Diseases Viral medicine.disease Infectious Diseases Family planning Health Care Surveys Health education Female business Developed country Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999). 25(1) |
| ISSN: | 1525-4135 |
| Popis: | This study investigates trends in AIDS knowledge and sexual behavior among men and women in urban Lusaka 1990 to 1998, and in all of Zambia, 1992 to 1998. Using data from representative surveys of urban Lusaka and of the country as a whole, population proportions were estimated to examine trends in knowledge and sexual risk behaviors. Differences in the estimated proportions between 1990 and 1998 were tested in Lusaka. In all Zambia, tests of difference were conducted between the earliest and latest years for which data were available for each indicator. A decline in premarital sexual activity was observed in urban Lusaka. In 1990, 50% of never married women reported no sexual experience, compared with 60% in 1998 (p =. 003); among men, the figures were 38% and 53%, respectively (p |
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