Access to Media and HIV Knowledge in India

Agarwal, Smriti; Araújo, Pedro de

doi:10.3390/economies2020124

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“…Similarly, the odds of having comprehensive HIV-knowledge instead of low to moderate among those listening to the radio for less than once a week and at least once a week was higher by 24 and 27% than those not listening at all respectively. This result is concordant with the findings from 27 SSA countries and India where people who frequently watch television and frequently listen to the radio had more comprehensive HIV-knowledge than people who do not [ 34 , 35 ]. Several studies [ 18 , 29 – 33 ] had also witnessed that exposure to mass media had an impact on acquiring comprehensive HIV-knowledge, due to the HIV-related educations and information conveyed through mass media.…”

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“…This could be due to differences in access to mass media between urban and rural youths which play a very vital role in disseminating HIV-related educations and awareness creations. This study and other studies [18,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] depicted that exposure to mass media is associated with acquiring comprehensive HIVknowledge.…”

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confidence: 66%

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HIV knowledge and associated factors among young Ethiopians: application of multilevel order logistic regression using the 2016 EDHS

2020

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Background Human Immunodeficiency virus continues to be a major global health problem infecting 75 million and killing 32 million people since the beginning of the epidemic. It badly hit Sub Saharan Africa than any country in the world and youths are sharing the greatest burden. The study aims to assess the level of HIV-knowledge and its determinants among Ethiopian youths using the 2016 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey data. Methods A nationally representative 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey data were used. A total of 10,903 youths comprising 6401 females and 4502 males were included in the study. Descriptive statistics and multilevel order logistic regression were used and confidence interval was used to declare statistical significance in the final model. Results The mean age and SD of youths included in this study was 19.10 (±2.82). Among Ethiopian youths, 20.92% (95% CI: 18.91, 23.09%) had low knowledge of HIV whereas, 48.76% (95% CI: 47.12, 50.41%) and 30.31% (95% CI: 28.51, 32.18%) of them had moderate and comprehensive HIV knowledge respectively. Being male, access to TV and radio, ever tested for HIV/AIDS, owning a mobile telephone, and attending primary school and above compared to non-attendants were associated with having higher HIV knowledge. But, dwelling in rural Ethiopia, being in the Protestant and Muslim religious groups as compared to those of Orthodox followers and being in married groups were associated with having lower HIV knowledge. Approximately, 12% of the variation in knowledge of HIV was due to regions. Conclusion Only one-third of Ethiopian youths have deep insight into the disease, whereas, nearly one-fifth of them have lower HIV-knowledge. There is a significant disparity in HIV-related knowledge among Ethiopian youths living in different regions. Rural residents, less educated, female, and married youths have less knowledge of HIV as compared to their counterparts. Youths who do not have a mobile phone, who lack health insurance coverage, and who have limited access to media have less knowledge about HIV. Therefore, the due focus should be given to the aforementioned factors to minimize the disparities between regions and to enhance Ethiopian youths’ HIV-knowledge.

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HIV knowledge and associated factors among young Ethiopians: application of multilevel order logistic regression using the 2016 EDHS

2020

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“…Ethiopian youths who listen to the radio at least once a week were 1.33 times more likely to accept HIV voluntary counseling and testing compared to their Ethiopian peers who did not listen to the radio. The findings from secondary data analysis of DHSs data from 27 SSA countries and DHS data from India showed that people who frequently watch television and frequently listen to the radio had more comprehensive HIV knowledge than people who do not [ 45 , 47 ]. Many other studies [ 29 , 44 , 46 , 48 , 49 , 51 ] had also witnessed that exposure to mass media has an independent impact on acquiring comprehensive HIV knowledge.…”

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HIV voluntary counseling and testing uptake and associated factors among Ethiopian youths: evidence from the 2016 EDHS using multilevel modeling

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Background Existing evidence showed that Human Immunodeficiency Virus counselling and testing uptake among Ethiopian youths is low, and factors contributing to it are not well studied. Therefore, this study aims to assess the status of uptake and identify its determinants using the 2016 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey data. Method Data of 10,903 Ethiopian youths were extracted from the 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey. The association between the response variable and the predictors was modeled by multilevel binary logistic regression, whereas adjusted odds ratio and confidence intervals were used to measure associations and their statistical significance. The variation in the uptake of counselling and testing of HIV across regions of Ethiopia was quantified by intra-class correlation. Result The current study revealed that, overall, 34.9% (95% CI: 33.5, 36.2%) Ethiopian youths were ever tested for human immunodeficiency virus. Results show that about 9% of the variation in the probability of being tested for the disease was due to the regional variations. Moreover, having moderate and comprehensive HIV knowledge, being rich, having risky sexual behaviour, having a better educational level, having professional work, being married, owning of mobile, and having access to media were positively associated with human immunodeficiency virus voluntary counselling and testing uptake. On the other hand, being male, following protestant religion, following Muslim religion, and following other religions than orthodox religion were negatively associated with the uptake of human immunodeficiency virus counselling and testing. Conclusion Voluntary human immunodeficiency virus counselling and testing uptake among Ethiopian youths is very low and varies across the regions which might hamper the ambitious plan of Ethiopia to end the disease as a public health threat by 2030. Emphasis should be given to promoting the youths’ HIV-related knowledge through community-based education, encouraging and empowering the youths to participate in professional works by giving due focus to poor youths, and promoting mass media utilization to better achieve the plan.

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“…En cambio, se reporta mejor nivel de actitudes adecuadas en personas que no trabajan (15) , y tener trabajo se asocia con conducta sexual de riesgo (28) lo que es contrario a nuestros hallazgos. Tener mayor acceso a medios de comunicación se asoció en la literatura con mejor nivel de conocimiento (12,14) , menores niveles de actitudes estigmatizantes hacia las PVVS (17) y con mayor uso de condón (14) , de manera similar a nuestro estudio.…”

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“…La información existente en la literatura indica que un mayor nivel educativo (8)(9)(10)(11)(12) , mejor nivel socioeconómico (8,9,12,13) , mayor acceso a los medios de comunicación (12,14,17) y el tener empleo (15,16) están asociados con un mejor conocimiento sobre VIH/ SIDA y en menor grado con el uso consistente de condón por parte de la pareja (12,14) .…”

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Conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas de la mujer peruana sobre la infección por VIH/SIDA

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Access to Media and HIV Knowledge in India

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

HIV knowledge and associated factors among young Ethiopians: application of multilevel order logistic regression using the 2016 EDHS

HIV knowledge and associated factors among young Ethiopians: application of multilevel order logistic regression using the 2016 EDHS

HIV voluntary counseling and testing uptake and associated factors among Ethiopian youths: evidence from the 2016 EDHS using multilevel modeling

Conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas de la mujer peruana sobre la infección por VIH/SIDA

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