Table 1.
Percentage of participants with knowledge about HIV prevention methods by their socio-demographic characteristics
| Variables | Women who knew transmission can be prevented |
Women who knew that a healthy-looking person can be HIV-positive | Women who knew HIV cannot be transmitted |
Women with comprehensive knowledge | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Having only one faithful uninfected sex partner | Using a condom every time | Knew both methods | Mosquito bites | Kissing and hand-shaking | Sharing food with someone with HIV | ||||
| Total | 58.6 | 56.9 | 48.2 | 66.2 | 37.2 | 63.5 | 55.0 | 19.1 | |
| Area | Urban | 64.7 | 62.9 | 53.9 | 72.7 | 41.2 | 70.2 | 60.7 | 22.2 |
| Rural | 43.0 | 41.5 | 33.4 | 49.7 | 26.8 | 46.3 | 40.7 | 11.1 | |
| Age (yr) | 15-24 | 60.7 | 58.8 | 49.8 | 68.9 | 39.0 | 66.1 | 57.3 | 20.2 |
| 25-29 | 42.7 | 42.4 | 35.6 | 45.9 | 23.5 | 43.3 | 37.9 | 10.7 | |
| Marital status | Ever married | 58.7 | 58.3 | 50.4 | 62.3 | 33.2 | 60.9 | 52.5 | 17.8 |
| Never married | 58.5 | 56.5 | 47.5 | 67.4 | 38.4 | 64.3 | 55.8 | 19.5 | |
| Education | None | 4.6 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.9 | 3.7 | 0.7 |
| Basic | 17.2 | 15.5 | 11.9 | 17.1 | 9.4 | 17.1 | 15.1 | 2.9 | |
| Secondary | 46.2 | 43.2 | 35.3 | 56.7 | 30.7 | 52.0 | 42.2 | 11.6 | |
| Higher | 72.8 | 71.5 | 61.2 | 80.9 | 45.9 | 78.3 | 69.0 | 25.6 | |
| Wealth index (quintile) | Q1 (poorest) | 71.8 | 60.6 | 59.0 | 72.2 | 42.3 | 49.2 | 48.7 | 21.7 |
| Q2 (poorer) | 67.4 | 58.3 | 52.7 | 61.9 | 31.2 | 75.6 | 60.9 | 17.1 | |
| Q3 (middle) | 62.9 | 59.8 | 51.7 | 62.7 | 32.4 | 64.5 | 47.7 | 10.3 | |
| Q4 (richer) | 52.7 | 50.3 | 41.4 | 59.3 | 34.7 | 64.5 | 62.2 | 19.5 | |
| Q5 (richest) | 60.4 | 59.7 | 52.2 | 51.5 | 37.8 | 61.8 | 50.7 | 21.0 | |
HIV, human immunodeficiency virus.