WP#173: Glick and Sahn, "Changes in HIV/AIDS knowledge and testing behavior in Africa: How much and for whom?"

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Glick, Peter and David E. Sahn
April 2007
Changes in HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Testing Behavior in Africa: How Much and for Whom?
Demographic and Health Survey data from six African countries indicate that HIV prevention knowledge is improving and that more Africans are getting tested. Still, in many cases fewer than half of adult respondents can identify specific prevention behaviors; knowledge appears particularly inadequate in countries not yet fully gripped by the epidemic. Schooling and wealth impacts on prevention knowledge generally have either not changed or have increased, meaning that initial disparities in knowledge by education and wealth levels have persisted or widened. HIV messages therefore need to be made more accessible to and/or better understood by the poor and less educated.
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