Table 3 Percentage of women with Accepting Attitude toward PLWHIV by their Socio-demographic variables
Variables | Willing to care a relative sick with HIV/AIDS “Yes” % | Would buy fresh vegetable from a market vendor who has HIV/AIDS “Yes” % | Would want HIV-positive female teacher who is not sick be allowed to continue teaching “Yes” % | Would want HIV infection in family remain secret “No”% | Have accepting attitude on all 4 indicators (“Yes” to the 1st 3 and “No” to the 4th) % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Overall score | 86.2 | 70.3 | 71.3 | 36.6 | 20.6 | |
Age (years) | ||||||
15–24 | 84.6 | 68.3 | 69.0 | 36.3 | 19.1 | |
20–24 | 92.8 | 78.4 | 80.7 | 37.8 | 26.7 | |
Religion | ||||||
Catholic | 84.1 | 68.0 | 70.4 | 41.2 | 23.2 | |
Protestant | 88.3 | 73.7 | 73.6 | 35.5 | 20.5 | |
Muslim | 85.2 | 73.0 | 71.3 | 30.6 | 17.6 | |
Pentecostal | 88.3 | 64.7 | 68.3 | 33.0 | 17.1 | |
Others | 88.7 | 84.9 | 75.5 | 26.4 | 15.1 | |
Educational level | ||||||
None | 45.2 | 28.6 | 45.2 | 61.9 | 14.0 | |
Primary | 81.1 | 59.7 | 60.0 | 36.4 | 16.1 | |
Secondary | 93.9 | 84.7 | 85.8 | 35.4 | 26.3 | |
Higher | 97.7 | 89.2 | 90.8 | 35.9 | 28.5 | |
Place of residence | ||||||
Urban | 92.3 | 80.7 | 81.9 | 35.8 | 23.8 | |
Rural | 84.1 | 66.8 | 67.7 | 36.8 | 19.5 | |
Wealth index | ||||||
Poorest | 74.1 | 54.1 | 57.1 | 45.0 | 18.6 | |
Poorer | 79.4 | 64.4 | 64.6 | 38.2 | 20.5 | |
Middle | 84.5 | 64.0 | 68.4 | 37.7 | 19.4 | |
Richer | 86.5 | 72.7 | 69.5 | 33.8 | 18.9 | |
Richest | 93.8 | 79.8 | 81.4 | 34.6 | 23.1 | |
Ever been tested for HIV/AIDS | ||||||
No | 80.8 | 62.4 | 65.6 | 34.0 | 15.8 | |
Yes | 92.4 | 79.5 | 77.9 | 39.5 | 26.1 | |
Mass media (frequency of listening to radio/watching TV/reading newspaper or magazine) | ||||||
Not at all | 74.7 | 57.8 | 61.1 | 40.4 | 15.7 | |
At least once a week | 87.3 | 71.4 | 72.3 | 36.2 | 21.1 | |