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HIV-related knowledge in Nigeria: a 2003-2013 trend analysis
BACKGROUND: Given Nigeria’s status as the country with the second highest number of people living with HIV globally, and 9% of the total global burden of HIV being attributable to Nigeria alone in 2013, improving our understanding of the nature of the HIV epidemic in Nigeria is crucial. As HIV-relat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5911966/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29713470 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-018-0268-2 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Given Nigeria’s status as the country with the second highest number of people living with HIV globally, and 9% of the total global burden of HIV being attributable to Nigeria alone in 2013, improving our understanding of the nature of the HIV epidemic in Nigeria is crucial. As HIV-related knowledge may be an important contributor to engagement in preventive behaviours, it is of interest to investigate trends in HIV-related knowledge in Nigeria with the purpose of informing future HIV prevention and education efforts. This study therefore aims to investigate trends in HIV-related knowledge in Nigeria between 2003 and 2013. METHODS: Data were derived from the 2003-2013 Nigerian Demographic and Health Surveys, and HIV-related knowledge scores were computed based on answers to HIV-related knowledge questions in the surveys. The significance of the difference between HIV-related knowledge across the time points was determined via the Kruskal-Wallis test, and changes in HIV-related knowledge were displayed graphically, stratified by relevant socio-demographic characteristics. ARIMA models were fit to the 2003 to 2013 trend data. RESULTS: Although there was generally a decrease in HIV-related knowledge across most knowledge domains in 2008, an overall increase was observed between 2003 and 2013. Unfortunately however, this was not the case for knowledge of mother-to-child transmission, which decreased between 2003 and 2013. The disparity in knowledge of HIV risk reduction between states also increased over time. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that although HIV-related knowledge appears to be increasing overall, future HIV prevention and education programs should focus on specific knowledge domains such as mother-to-child transmission, and on specific states in which HIV-related knowledge remains low. |
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spelling | pubmed-59119662018-04-30 HIV-related knowledge in Nigeria: a 2003-2013 trend analysis Faust, Lena Ekholuenetale, Michael Yaya, Sanni Arch Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Given Nigeria’s status as the country with the second highest number of people living with HIV globally, and 9% of the total global burden of HIV being attributable to Nigeria alone in 2013, improving our understanding of the nature of the HIV epidemic in Nigeria is crucial. As HIV-related knowledge may be an important contributor to engagement in preventive behaviours, it is of interest to investigate trends in HIV-related knowledge in Nigeria with the purpose of informing future HIV prevention and education efforts. This study therefore aims to investigate trends in HIV-related knowledge in Nigeria between 2003 and 2013. METHODS: Data were derived from the 2003-2013 Nigerian Demographic and Health Surveys, and HIV-related knowledge scores were computed based on answers to HIV-related knowledge questions in the surveys. The significance of the difference between HIV-related knowledge across the time points was determined via the Kruskal-Wallis test, and changes in HIV-related knowledge were displayed graphically, stratified by relevant socio-demographic characteristics. ARIMA models were fit to the 2003 to 2013 trend data. RESULTS: Although there was generally a decrease in HIV-related knowledge across most knowledge domains in 2008, an overall increase was observed between 2003 and 2013. Unfortunately however, this was not the case for knowledge of mother-to-child transmission, which decreased between 2003 and 2013. The disparity in knowledge of HIV risk reduction between states also increased over time. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that although HIV-related knowledge appears to be increasing overall, future HIV prevention and education programs should focus on specific knowledge domains such as mother-to-child transmission, and on specific states in which HIV-related knowledge remains low. BioMed Central 2018-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5911966/ /pubmed/29713470 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-018-0268-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Faust, Lena Ekholuenetale, Michael Yaya, Sanni HIV-related knowledge in Nigeria: a 2003-2013 trend analysis |
title | HIV-related knowledge in Nigeria: a 2003-2013 trend analysis |
title_full | HIV-related knowledge in Nigeria: a 2003-2013 trend analysis |
title_fullStr | HIV-related knowledge in Nigeria: a 2003-2013 trend analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | HIV-related knowledge in Nigeria: a 2003-2013 trend analysis |
title_short | HIV-related knowledge in Nigeria: a 2003-2013 trend analysis |
title_sort | hiv-related knowledge in nigeria: a 2003-2013 trend analysis |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5911966/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29713470 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-018-0268-2 |
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