Religion and women's health in Ghana: insights into HIV/AIDs preventive and protective behavior

Takyi, Baffour K.

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(02)00122-3

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“…27 However, no association between religious affiliation and condom use was found in an analysis of DHS data from Ghana. 28 Two studies using various measures of religiosity, the first with Christian women drawn from the same Malawian sample as above 29 and the second with a Muslim sample of university students in Senegal, 30 found no associations between religiosity and condom use. These results suggest there may be variations by region of SSA, age and marital status, and between religious affiliation and religiosity that require further research to identify patterns.…”

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Condoms in sub-Saharan Africa

Maticka‐Tyndale¹

2012

Sex. Health

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Abstract. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the region with the world's highest rates of HIV and other sexually transmissible infections (STIs), yet numerous studies show that condom use is generally rare. This suggests a need for a better understanding of how condoms fit within sexual practices and relationships in SSA. This paper seeks to address this need by reviewing research published between the late 1980s and 2011 on use and factors influencing use of male condoms in SSA. What is evident from this research is that condom use involves complex social and interpersonal dynamics, with structural and cultural conditions exerting an influence through framing social cognitions and setting boundaries on autonomy that make the apparently irrational choice of eschewing condoms a rational decision. The influences of poverty; relationships with parents, peers and partners; limited, insufficient or absent information especially in rural areas and among men who have sex with men; gender and sexual norms, and the dynamics of gendered power; and beliefs and attitudes about HIV, condoms and sexuality all have been shown to work against condom use for a large proportion of Africa's people. However, promising results are shown in trends towards increased condom use among single women in numerous countries, increasing acceptance and use of condoms among some university students, successes in producing potentially sustainable condom use resulting from select interventions, and resistance to succumbing to the dominant gender-power dynamics and structural-cultural impediments that women in groups have mobilised.

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Section: Sociodemographic Characteristics Of Condom Usersmentioning

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Condoms in sub-Saharan Africa

Maticka‐Tyndale¹

2012

Sex. Health

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“…Various literatures argue that religion and religiosity may discourage risky behaviour and therefore serve as a barrier to HIV infection (Green 2003;Takyi 2003) yet it has been largely ignored in understanding adolescent health outcomes (Wallace & Williams 1997). When attention is given, 'the choices of measures employed, the methods of modelling religious variables and the skills with which coefficients of religious effects are interpreted often fall short' yet significant influences of religion often can be documented despite poor measurement (Regnerus, Smith & Fritsch 2003).…”

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“…Addai (1999) found religion to be a significant predictor of contraceptive use. Some religious groups view any discussions about condoms as implying a support of premarital and extramarital sex; it is likely that they may not talk about condoms in their discussions about AIDS (Takyi 2003). …”

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Adolescent religiosity and attitudes to HIV and AIDS in Ghana

Amoako-Agyeman¹

2012

SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS

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This study investigated the relationships between adolescent religiosity and attitudes to HIV/AIDS based on two major techniques of analysis, factor and regression analysis towards informing preventive school education strategies. Using cross-sectional data of 448 adolescents in junior high school, the study incorporated survey in a self-administered questionnaire and sought to identify underlying factors that affect pupils' responses, delineate the pattern of relationships between variables and select models which best explain and predict relationships among variables. A seven-factor solution described the 'attitude' construct including abstinence and protection, and six for 'religiosity'. The results showed relatively high levels of religiosity and a preference for private religiosity as opposed to organisational religiosity. The regression analysis produced significant relationships between factors of attitudes to HIV/AIDS and of religiosity. Adolescent with very high private religiosity are more likely to abstain from sex but less likely to use condoms once they initiate: protection is inversely related to religiosity. The findings suggest that religious-based adolescent interventions should focus on intrinsic religiosity. Additionally, increasing HIV prevention information and incorporating culturally relevant and socially acceptable values might lend support to improved adolescent school-based HIV/AIDS prevention programmes.Keywords: adolescent, attitudes, religiosity, HIV/AIDS, prevention, protection, Ghana RésuméCette étude a pour but de rechercher les rapports entre la religiosité des adolescents et leur attitude envers le VIH/SIDA basée sur deux techniques d'analyse en l'occurrence celle du facteur et de la régression dans le but d'établir une stratégie d'éducation préventive en milieu scolaire. Des données croisées portant sur 448 adolescents collégiens on été obtenu a travers une enquête basée sur des questionnaires auto-administrées. L'enquête était désignée à identifier les facteurs sous-jacents affectant les réponses des élèves, délimiter le motif des relations existantes entre les variables et choisir les meilleurs modèles qui expliquent et prédiquent mieux les relations entre ces différent variables. Un sept-facteur solution décrirait le comportement construis comprenant l'abstinence et la protection tandis que un six-facteur solution attribue a la religiosité. Les résultats ont montré un degré relativement élevé de religiosité et une préférence pour une religiosité discrète opposée à celle d'organisation. L'analyse de régression a identifié une relation significative entre les facteurs de comportement orienté sur le VIH/SIDA et la religiosité. L'adolescent ayant une religiosité discrète et privée est plus susceptible de s'abstenir de rapport sexuel mais moins susceptible d'utiliser les condoms une fois initié: la protection est inversement liée à la religiosité. Les résultats suggèrent que les interventions par rapport aux adolescents religieux doivent être centrées sur la religiosité i...

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“…34,35 There has been considerable discussion about the influence of religious and cultural practices on overall health behavior independent of socioeconomic processes. [36][37][38] In India, the religious differentials in the socioeconomic and demographic profiles have been well documented due to cultural and regional diversity and, political interests. [39][40][41][42][43][44] The most studied issue in public health literature in India has been on Hindu-Muslim differences in fertility and family planning.…”

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Socioeconomic and regional disparities in safe delivery in India (1990-2006)

Yadav

Gupta

Singh

2016

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Giving birth to a child is not only a strain for the body, but it also puts the woman's health at risk. Globally, nearly 300,000 thousand women die each year as a result of pregnancy related complications. India, with a population of more than 1.21 billion, has the highest maternal mortality in the world (estimated to be 56000 in 2010). Addressing the maternity care needs of women may have considerable ramifications for achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG)-5. The proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel (safe delivery) is one of the main indicators used to monitor progress in reaching MDG 5. The main objective of this study was to the traces the changes in utilization patterns and determinants of safe delivery care services by women in India, during last one and half decade, 1990-2006. Methods: Data from three rounds of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), known as the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) in India were analyzed. Bivariate and multivariate-pooled logistic regression model were applied to assessing the trends and determinants of safe delivery care services utilization, over one and half decade, 1990-2006 and also fit models stratified by survey periods and with interactions among key socioeconomic predictors to show the extent of disparity in the utilization of safe delivery care services among women belonging to different socioeconomic strata. Results:The results from analysis indicate that the coverage of safe delivery has increased from 34 percent to 50 percent during the last one and half decade. Overall, it can be said that, there was an improvement in the level of safe deliveries over the period of time. This improvement was somewhere very marginal, but somewhere very pronounced too. The results shows those women's education, husband's education, religion, caste, mass media exposure, birth order and interval, wealth quintile and region of residence were found to be statistically significant determinants in the utilization of safe delivery care services. Women from the Southern region utilizing the highest safe delivery care services compared to other regions. Conclusions: The region specific inequalities, which were greater than the socioeconomic inequalities, may be reduced by expanding outreach health programs to bring services closer to the disadvantaged. Promoting the use of family planning, female education, targeting vulnerable groups such as poor, illiterate, high parity women, involving media and grass root level workers and collaboration between community leaders and health care system could be some important policy level interventions to address the unmet need of safe delivery care services among women. Maternity programmes should be designed keeping in mind the socioeconomic and geographically context, especially women who belongs to EAG states, India.

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Religion and women's health in Ghana: insights into HIV/AIDs preventive and protective behavior

Cited by 112 publications

References 66 publications

Condoms in sub-Saharan Africa

Condoms in sub-Saharan Africa

Adolescent religiosity and attitudes to HIV and AIDS in Ghana

Socioeconomic and regional disparities in safe delivery in India (1990-2006)

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