Campus Units
Community and Regional Planning
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
Fall 2010
Journal or Book Title
Journal of African Development
Volume
12
Issue
2
First Page
33
Last Page
46
Abstract
This paper examines whether marriage increases the risk of HIV infection among women aged 15-24 in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. We fi nd that in all the three countries, the risk of infection is signifi cantly lower for never-married young women than ever-married young women; however, the difference in risk disappears when we control for age, educational attainment, household wealth, and area of residence. Thus, our result highlights the importance of socio-economic and demographic factors in analyzing the link between marital status and HIV risk among young women. Particularly, our fi ndings show that age and education play a crucial role in determining the level of HIV/AIDS risk for young women. The result also implies that marriage as an institution does not necessarily elevate the risk of HIV infection among young women.
Copyright Date
Journal of African Development
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Asiedu, Christobel; Asiedu, Elizabeth; and Owusu, Francis Y., "Young Women's Marital Status and HIV Risk in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe" (2010). Community and Regional Planning Publications. 30.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/communityplanning_pubs/30
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Comments
This article is from Journal of African Development, 2010 12(2); 33-46. Posted with permission.