Skip to content
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Menu
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Menu
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Publication Details
AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Cultural differences in acceptability of a vaginal microbicide: A comparison between potential users from nashville, tennessee, usa, and kafue and mumbwa, zambia
HIV/AIDS - Research and Palliative Care, Volume 4, Year 2012
Notification
URL copied to clipboard!
Description
Purpose: We sought to determine the relationship between acceptability of a hypothetical vaginal microbicide, cultural factors, and perceived HIV risk among African-American women in Nashville, TN, USA, and African women in Kafue and Mumbwa, Zambia. Patients and methods: Women in both sites completed a survey. Regression analyses were performed on valid samples (Nashville, 164; Zambia, 101) to determine cultural differences affecting microbicide acceptability. Regression analyses also tested whether individual risk perception affected acceptability. Results: In Zambia, 89.6% of women were willing to use a microbicide versus 81.6% in Nashville (P, 0.0001). One cultural difference is that women in the Zambian cohort viewed risk of HIV infection as distinct from risk of acquiring STIs, with 48% believing they were certain to become infected with AIDS, compared to 4% of Nashville participants. Conclusion: These results suggest a high degree of acceptability toward use of a vaginal microbicide to prevent HIV infection. © 2012 Montgomery Rice et al, publisher and licensee Dove Medical Press Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Rice, Valerie Montgomery
United States, Atlanta
Morehouse School of Medicine
Maimbolwa, Margaret C.
Zambia, Lusaka
University of Zambia School of Medicine
Nkandu, Esther
Zambia, Lusaka
University of Zambia School of Medicine
Hampton, Jacqueline Fleming
United States, Nashville
Meharry Medical College
Lee, Jae Eun
United States, Jackson
Jackson State University
Hildreth, James E.K.
United States, Davis
University of California, Davis
Statistics
Citations: 6
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.2147/HIV.S25848
e-ISSN:
11791373
Research Areas
Infectious Diseases
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Cohort Study
Study Approach
Quantitative
Study Locations
Zambia
Participants Gender
Female