Trends and determinants of Comprehensive HIV and AIDS knowledge among urban young women in Kenya
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...Comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge was examined using the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) indicator [20] and could be defined as ‘‘yes’’ only if answers to all five questions are correct....
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...Other behavioral factors that increase young urban women’s risk for HIV infection include having older sexual partners, inconsistent condom use, forced sex, and transactional sex [11]....
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...While specific programs meet the needs of women and children, there remains a poor understanding of the reproductive health needs of young women [12]....
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...Even though other studies have suggested that married women are unlikely to negotiate for safer sex and may be unaware of extra-marital affairs of their husbands, ever married women are likely have assumptions that marriage is protective of risk of infection and may assume they will benefit from their husbands knowledge of HIV and AIDS [22]....
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...Based on similar studies in Ethiopia and Kenya [5,22], the independent variables used in this paper include education (coded as none, primary and secondary/higher), household wealth (recoded as tertiles and labelled poor, middle and rich), ethnicity, parity, age, marital status, religion, and region of residence....
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...Rather, accurate and high levels of comprehensive knowledge on HIV and AIDS transmission is necessary [22,23]....
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...Although the number of people who know that HIV and AIDS exists is widespread, individual risk perception varies, and whether or not an individuals’ risk perception is accurate, it may influence the adoption of risk reduction strategies [30]....
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