Table 2 Percentage distribution of women’s HIV/AIDS knowledge and their Socio-demographic variables
Variables | Women who knew prevention methods | Women who knew a healthy looking person can have HIV/AIDS | Rejecting common local misconceptions | Women with comprehensive knowledge | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Using condom every time having sex | Having only one faithful uninfected partner | Knew both prevention methods | Can get HIV from mosquito bites | Can get HIV by sharing food | Can get HIV by witchcraft or supernatural power | Reject at least two common local misconceptions | |||
Total | 76.6 | 86.2 | 70.4 | 83.3 | 66.9 | 80.5 | 87.2 | 68.1 | 51.9 |
Age (years) | |||||||||
15–19 | 74.9 | 85.3 | 68.4 | 81.6 | 66.0 | 80.2 | 86.2 | 66.2 | 48.9 |
20–24 | 83.5 | 90.0 | 78.5 | 90.2 | 70.2 | 81.5 | 91.0 | 75.9 | 63.8 |
Religion | |||||||||
Catholic | 75.8 | 86.2 | 69.5 | 80.7 | 66.2 | 77.8 | 85.0 | 64.6 | 47.1 |
Protestant | 76.4 | 88.4 | 71.5 | 82.6 | 68.6 | 85.1 | 88.1 | 70.6 | 54.7 |
Muslim | 79.2 | 80.0 | 69.0 | 89.3 | 64.8 | 79.5 | 91.4 | 76.6 | 52.9 |
Pentecostal | 78.0 | 87.5 | 72.3 | 87.2 | 65.2 | 76.6 | 87.2 | 64.9 | 53.8 |
Others | 69.8 | 84.6 | 67.3 | 83.0 | 75.0 | 92.5 | 90.6 | 67.9 | 57.8 |
Educational level | |||||||||
None | 33.3 | 71.4 | 33.3 | 48.8 | 44.2 | 59.5 | 61.9 | 28.6 | 13.8 |
Primary | 73.0 | 83.3 | 65.6 | 78.3 | 58.0 | 73.8 | 82.7 | 57.6 | 40.5 |
Secondary | 82.5 | 91.5 | 78.8 | 89.9 | 77.5 | 89.8 | 94.1 | 81.8 | 65.5 |
Higher | 87.6 | 85.4 | 74.8 | 97.7 | 86.9 | 90.0 | 93.1 | 90.0 | 74.8 |
Place of residence | |||||||||
Urban | 83.0 | 89.0 | 77.7 | 92.5 | 72.7 | 82.6 | 91.9 | 79.7 | 62.7 |
Rural | 74.5 | 85.2 | 67.9 | 80.2 | 64.9 | 79.7 | 85.6 | 64.2 | 44.5 |
Wealth index | |||||||||
Poorest | 63.9 | 79.5 | 58.4 | 70.9 | 53.6 | 74.0 | 73.2 | 45.2 | 32.0 |
Poorer | 66.4 | 86.5 | 63.4 | 74.2 | 61.4 | 79.1 | 81.3 | 57.7 | 41.9 |
Middle | 79.5 | 85.1 | 69.6 | 80.9 | 63.5 | 78.3 | 90.4 | 65.1 | 50.4 |
Richer | 80.4 | 85.8 | 74.8 | 84.5 | 66.0 | 77.6 | 87.7 | 70.2 | 54.4 |
Richest | 80.8 | 89.1 | 73.8 | 91.2 | 75.8 | 86.3 | 92.3 | 80.1 | 61.6 |
Ever been tested for HIV/AIDS | |||||||||
No | 70.3 | 83.0 | 63.5 | 79.1 | 62.9 | 77.3 | 84.1 | 63.3 | 45.0 |
Yes | 83.8 | 89.9 | 78.3 | 88.2 | 71.4 | 84.1 | 90.7 | 73.7 | 59.8 |
Mass media (frequency of listening to radio/watching TV/reading newspaper or magazine) | |||||||||
Not at all | 73.5 | 72.9 | 60.8 | 71.7 | 57.8 | 73.5 | 81.9 | 48.8 | 38.6 |
At least once a week | 76.9 | 87.4 | 71.3 | 84.4 | 67.7 | 81.1 | 87.6 | 69.8 | 53.2 |