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dc.contributor.authorPettifor, Audrey Een
dc.contributor.authorLevandowski, Brooke Aen
dc.contributor.authorMacPhail, Catherineen
dc.contributor.authorPadian, Nancy Sen
dc.contributor.authorCohen, Myron Sen
dc.contributor.authorRees, Helen Ven
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-02T15:28:00Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Epidemiology, 37(6), p. 1266-1273en
dc.identifier.issn1464-3685en
dc.identifier.issn0300-5771en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15580-
dc.description.abstractObjective: To identify risk factors for HIV infection among young women aged 15–24 years reporting one lifetime partner in South Africa. Design: In 2003, we conducted a nationally representative household survey of sexual behaviour and HIV testing among 11,904 young people aged 15-24 years in South Africa. This analysis focuses on the subset of sexually experienced young women with only one reported lifetime sex partner (n = 1708). Methods: Using the proximate determinants framework and the published literature we identified factors associated with HIV in young women. The associations between these factors and HIV infection were explored in multivariable logistic regression models. Results: Of the young women, 15% reporting one lifetime partner were HIV positive. In multivariable analyses, young women who had not completed high school were more likely to be infected with HIV compared with those that had completed high school (AOR 3.75; 95% CI 1.34–10.46). Conclusions: Young South African women in this population were at high risk of HIV infection despite reporting only having one lifetime partner. Few individual level factors were associated with HIV infection, emphasizing the importance of developing HIV prevention interventions that address structural and partner level risk factors.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Epidemiologyen
dc.titleKeep them in school: the importance of education as a protective factor against HIV infection among young South African womenen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/ije/dyn131en
dc.subject.keywordsPreventive Medicineen
dc.subject.keywordsEpidemiologyen
local.contributor.firstnameAudrey Een
local.contributor.firstnameBrooke Aen
local.contributor.firstnameCatherineen
local.contributor.firstnameNancy Sen
local.contributor.firstnameMyron Sen
local.contributor.firstnameHelen Ven
local.subject.for2008111706 Epidemiologyen
local.subject.for2008111716 Preventive Medicineen
local.subject.seo2008920412 Preventive Medicineen
local.subject.seo2008920499 Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.seo2008920413 Social Structure and Healthen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Rural Medicineen
local.profile.emailcmacphai@une.edu.auen
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local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20140801-163611en
local.publisher.placeUnited Kingdomen
local.format.startpage1266en
local.format.endpage1273en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume37en
local.identifier.issue6en
local.title.subtitlethe importance of education as a protective factor against HIV infection among young South African womenen
local.contributor.lastnamePettiforen
local.contributor.lastnameLevandowskien
local.contributor.lastnameMacPhailen
local.contributor.lastnamePadianen
local.contributor.lastnameCohenen
local.contributor.lastnameReesen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:cmacphaien
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:15813en
local.identifier.handlehttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15580en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleKeep them in schoolen
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorPettifor, Audrey Een
local.search.authorLevandowski, Brooke Aen
local.search.authorMacPhail, Catherineen
local.search.authorPadian, Nancy Sen
local.search.authorCohen, Myron Sen
local.search.authorRees, Helen Ven
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.year.published2008en
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