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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Keep them in school: The importance of education as a protective factor against HIV infection among young South African women
International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 37, No. 6, Year 2008
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Description
Objective: To identify risk factors for HIV infection among young women aged 15-24 years reporting one lifetime partner in South Africa. Design: In 2003, we conducted a nationally representative household survey of sexual behaviour and HIV testing among 11 904 young people aged 15-24 years in South Africa. This analysis focuses on the subset of sexually experienced young women with only one reported lifetime sex partner (n = 1708). Methods: Using the proximate determinants framework and the published literature we identified factors associated with HIV in young women. The associations between these factors and HIV infection were explored in multivariable logistic regression models. Results: Of the young women, 15% reporting one lifetime partner were HIV positive. In multivariable analyses, young women who had not completed high school were more likely to be infected with HIV compared with those that had completed high school (AOR 3.75; 95% CI 1.34-10.46). Conclusions: Young South African women in this population were at high risk of HIV infection despite reporting only having one lifetime partner. Few individual level factors were associated with HIV infection, emphasizing the importance of developing HIV prevention interventions that address structural and partner level risk factors. © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Pettifor, Audrey E.
United States, Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Levandowski, Brooke A.
United States, Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MacPhail, Catherine
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand
Padian, Nancy S.
United States, San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco
Cohen, Myron S.
United States, Chapel Hill
Unc School of Medicine
Rees, Helen V.
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand
Statistics
Citations: 186
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1093/ije/dyn131
ISSN:
03005771
e-ISSN:
14643685
Research Areas
Infectious Diseases
Sexual And Reproductive Health
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative
Study Locations
South Africa
Participants Gender
Female