Talking About, Knowing About HIV/AIDS in Canada: A Rural-Urban Comparison

Veinot, Tiffany C.; Harris, Roma

doi:10.1111/j.1748-0361.2010.00353.x

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“…Urban based young women were more likely to have knowledge of HIV/AIDS compared to rural based young women. This finding is similar with other studies done in Sub-Saharan African countries [34,44] and elsewhere [40,45,46]. This probably could be due to limited availability of higher educational institutions, modern health services and less coverage of mass media and hence less exposure to information related to sexual and reproductive health information in rural than in urban areas [34,44].…”

Section: Awareness and Hiv/aids Knowledgesupporting

confidence: 91%

Predictors of HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Attitude among Young Women of Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo: Cross-Sectional Study

Gebremedhin¹,

Wang²,

Tesfamariam³

2017

J AIDS Clin Res

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IntroductionHIV/AIDS has become one of the world's most serious public health and development challenges, particularly in low-and middleincome countries [1]. Young women (aged 15-24 ) are particularly most vulnerable to HIV with infection rates twice as high as in young men, and accounting for 22% of all new HIV infections and 31% of new infections in Sub-Saharan Africa [2]. In this region, women acquire HIV infection at least 5-7 years earlier than men, often associated with sexual debut [3,4]. According to UNAIDS, the HIV prevalence for young women in Nigeria and DRC in 2013 were estimated 1.3% and 0.5% as compared to 0.7% and 0.3% of young men, respectively [4]. Young women are more susceptible to HIV, as a result of lack of correct health information, inadequate access to reproductive health services, engagement in risky behaviors, financial insecurity, regional and national conflicts, age-disparity, intergenerational sexual relationships, early, forced, and child marriage, gender violence and discrimination [5][6][7][8].Despite the fact that young women are highly exposed to HIV infection, they were also less likely to have adequate HIV/AIDS about knowledge compared to young men [9]. Adequate knowledge on HIV/AIDS is crucial for averting the HIV infection and ending the negative acceptance attitude and discrimination towards the infected and affected person [10]. Improving HIV/AIDS knowledge has been suggested as an effective HIV preventive behavioral intervention and has been associated with increased safe sex practices, HIV testing and treatment uptake [11]. Several studies of young people from Nigeria [12][13][14][15][16] and elsewhere [17][18][19][20][21] have sought to understand the gaps in their knowledge of HIV/AIDS, with a view towards creating an appropriately targeted educational interventions in improving their HIV/AIDS knowledge and decreasing their risky behaviors. Knowledge about HIV among young people in the western and central Africa continued to be alarmingly low. According to the most recent household surveys, only 24% of young women aged 15-24 years compared to 31% of young men of the same age had comprehensive and correct knowledge of how to prevent HIV [16]. On the other hand, negative attitudes towards HIV/AIDS and PLWHA have been shown to be hindrances for HIV prevention, voluntary counseling and testing, HIV status disclosure and treatment compliance [22,23]. Other studies showed the association between negative attitudes of people towards PLWHA and individual's wrong information about prevention and transmission of the disease [24,25].Young women are at the center of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, not only in terms of new infections but also an opportunities for halting the transmission of HIV [26]. United nations made a political declaration in 2016 with a specific target which showed that by 2020 the new HIV infections among young women aged 15 to 24 years should reduce to fewer than 100, 000. Nigeria and DRC were identified as Fast- Results: Awareness of the young women of Niger...

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Section: Awareness and Hiv/aids Knowledgesupporting

confidence: 91%

Predictors of HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Attitude among Young Women of Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo: Cross-Sectional Study

Gebremedhin¹,

Wang²,

Tesfamariam³

2017

J AIDS Clin Res

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“…Similar results have also been reported from Sub Saharan Africa, Bolivia, India and Canada [29][30][31][32][33]. An urban and rural residence variation was found to be a considerable predictor of HIV/AIDS knowledge even after controlling other variables [33]. This could be of many reasons, for example the coverage of mass media and HIV/AIDS prevention programs in the urban could be more as compared to the rural which can widely influence the level of information and thereby determine the comprehensive knowledge of the residents [30,34].…”

Section: Comprehensive Hiv/aids Knowledgesupporting

confidence: 90%

“…Similarly, urban residents were more likely to have higher comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS compared to those living in rural among Gabonese youth. Similar results have also been reported from Sub Saharan Africa, Bolivia, India and Canada [29][30][31][32][33]. An urban and rural residence variation was found to be a considerable predictor of HIV/AIDS knowledge even after controlling other variables [33].…”

Section: Comprehensive Hiv/aids Knowledgesupporting

confidence: 87%

Associates of Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Acceptance Attitude among Male Youth Aged 15-24: Comparison Study among Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Gabon

L.Th.¹,

Ht²,

Ag³

et al. 2016

J AIDS Clin Res

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“…Group participation and trust with no information about dissimilar groups Veinot and Harris (2011) To explore information exchange about HIV/AIDS among people living in rural and urban communities and to assess the value of social capital theory, as well as demographic factors, in predicting community members' knowledge of HIV/ AIDS and their likelihood of having talked about the disease.…”

Section: Questionnaire From Kouvonen Et Al Adapted Tomentioning

confidence: 99%