Zambia Demographic and Health Survey 2001-2002 - Measure DHS

Table 13.3 Knowledge of programmatically important ways to avoid HIV/AIDSPercent distribution of women and men by knowledge of three programmatically important ways to avoid HIV/AIDS, and percentagewho know of two specific ways to avoid HIV/AIDS, according to background characteristics, Zambia 2001-2002–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––WomenMen–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Knowledge of ways Specific ways to Knowledge of ways Specific ways toto avoid HIV/AIDS avoid HIV/AIDS to avoid HIV/AIDS avoid HIV/AIDS––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––LimitLimitTwo or Use number Number Two or Use number NumberBackground One three con- sexual of One three con- sexual ofcharacteristic1None way ways Total doms2 1partners women None way ways Total doms partners 2 men–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Age15-19 20.9 6.5 72.6 100.0 66.7 73.8 1,811 14.4 10.5 75.1 100.0 73.9 72.5 45920-24 12.9 6.9 80.3 100.0 74.6 84.6 1,664 7.8 3.9 88.3 100.0 81.0 87.4 34625-29 12.2 7.3 80.5 100.0 76.1 85.9 1,376 5.1 5.0 89.8 100.0 85.3 90.1 36130-39 11.4 7.7 80.9 100.0 74.1 87.1 1,738 4.3 5.6 90.0 100.0 80.2 93.3 52340-49 17.0 7.9 75.1 100.0 65.3 81.4 1,069 5.3 6.8 87.9 100.0 78.3 90.0 28750-59 na na na na na na na 9.6 9.7 80.8 100.0 67.1 86.9 171Marital statusNever married 17.6 4.9 77.5 100.0 70.8 77.2 1,897 11.1 7.7 81.2 100.0 75.3 79.7 782Ever had sex 14.5 4.2 81.3 100.0 78.7 81.8 990 8.9 7.0 84.1 100.0 79.0 82.6 579Never had sex 21.0 5.6 73.4 100.0 62.3 72.3 907 17.4 9.9 72.8 100.0 64.6 71.5 202Married or living together 13.9 8.7 77.4 100.0 71.3 84.4 4,694 5.4 6.5 88.1 100.0 80.2 90.7 1,248Divorced/separated/widowed 14.1 4.9 81.0 100.0 74.1 83.1 1,067 10.2 2.9 86.9 100.0 82.2 85.0 116ResidenceUrban 7.3 4.4 88.2 100.0 82.0 90.5 3,073 5.4 4.6 90.0 100.0 81.4 90.8 851Rural 19.9 9.1 71.0 100.0 64.6 77.0 4,585 9.3 8.2 82.6 100.0 76.7 83.5 1,294ProvinceCentral 23.6 10.5 65.9 100.0 62.4 73.2 562 5.1 4.7 90.2 100.0 86.2 90.2 165Copperbelt 7.5 5.0 87.5 100.0 79.2 90.0 1,544 7.1 5.6 87.2 100.0 78.6 87.6 447Eastern 14.5 11.6 73.8 100.0 69.0 81.7 926 7.8 5.9 86.3 100.0 80.5 88.7 268Luapula 9.9 7.0 83.1 100.0 70.1 88.7 622 3.9 14.4 81.8 100.0 76.8 93.4 166Lusaka 7.8 2.6 89.6 100.0 85.3 91.2 1,132 5.0 4.2 90.8 100.0 80.3 90.8 314Northern 10.7 10.4 78.9 100.0 64.6 88.0 1,040 8.0 5.5 86.5 100.0 73.1 85.3 292North-Western 9.0 4.7 86.4 100.0 80.6 89.9 354 6.3 0.8 92.9 100.0 81.9 92.4 93Southern 24.0 6.8 69.2 100.0 71.4 70.2 814 15.1 7.3 77.6 100.0 78.0 78.5 232Western 40.6 8.1 51.3 100.0 49.6 55.1 663 10.8 15.3 73.9 100.0 74.5 70.1 169EducationNo education 30.1 10.3 59.5 100.0 50.6 66.7 925 23.6 9.2 67.3 100.0 56.6 70.4 108Primary 17.1 7.9 74.9 100.0 68.4 80.1 4,439 10.6 9.1 80.4 100.0 75.6 81.2 1,100Secondary 4.8 4.7 90.4 100.0 85.7 92.6 2,061 3.0 3.5 93.5 100.0 84.6 93.4 808Higher 0.7 2.2 97.1 100.0 91.7 99.3 234 0.0 5.7 94.3 100.0 84.7 100.0 129Total 14.9 7.2 77.9 100.0 71.6 82.4 7,658 7.7 6.8 85.5 100.0 78.5 86.4 2,145–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Note: Programmatically important ways are abstaining from sex, using condoms, and limiting the number of sexual partners. Abstinencefrom sex is measured from a spontaneous response only; using condoms and limiting the number of sexual partners is measured fromspontaneous and probed responses.na = Not applicable1Those who have not heard of HIV/AIDS or do not know of any programmatically important ways to avoid HIV/AIDS.2Refers to limiting number of sexual partners and limiting sex to one partner/staying faithful to one partner.There are rural-urban variations regarding knowledge of ways to avoid HIV/AIDS. Urbanwomen and men are more knowledgeable about ways to avoid HIV infection than their rural counterparts.Women and men in Western province are least knowledgeable about ways of contracting HIV/AIDS.The most knowledgeable are women in Copperbelt, Lusaka, and North-Western provinces and men inCentral, Lusaka, and North-Western provinces.198 | AIDS/HIV/STI-Related Knowledge and Behaviour