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Zambia Demographic and Health Survey 2001-2002 - Measure DHS

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Table 13.16 Source of treatment of STIsPercentage of women <strong>and</strong> men who had an STI <strong>and</strong>/or associated symptoms in the 12 months preceding thesurvey, by source of treatment or advice <strong>and</strong> STI/associated symptom, <strong>Zambia</strong> <strong>2001</strong>-<strong>2002</strong>––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––1Source of treatment of STI––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Advice or NumberClinic/ Advice treatment of women/hospital/ Tradi- from from No menprivate tional Shop/ friends/ any advice or with anSymptom doctor healer pharmacy relatives source treatment STI 2–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––WOMEN–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––STI 80.9 24.1 17.6 20.3 93.0 7.0 184Genital discharge 52.1 17.2 16.7 22.7 69.5 29.9 186Genital sore/ulcer 49.8 17.3 15.0 17.2 66.0 33.1 255Total 51.2 17.5 13.2 17.1 66.5 32.9 398–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––MEN–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––STI 68.5 34.7 35.4 47.0 81.4 18.6 92Genital discharge 52.4 32.7 38.5 49.0 71.6 28.4 82Genital sore/ulcer 48.5 33.5 36.2 41.2 69.2 30.8 101Total 51.3 29.6 33.3 42.4 69.7 30.3 156–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––1Respondents were able to report more than one source of treatment .2Includes women reporting having had an STI or genital discharge, ulcer or sore in the preceding 12 months.Respondents who reported having an STI in the past 12 months were also asked whether they informedtheir sexual partner(s). Table 13.17 shows that 72 percent of the women <strong>and</strong> 58 percent of themen did, while 22 percent of the women <strong>and</strong> 32 percent of the men did not. The data show that whenwomen report that they had an STI (as opposed to having STI-like symptoms), a higher percentage(91 percent) inform their sexual partners compared with those who had various STI symptoms (71 percent<strong>and</strong> 75 percent, respectively). A much lower proportion of men who report having had an STI in the past12 months inform their partners (63 percent).Table 13.17 Efforts to protect partners from infection among women <strong>and</strong> men with STIPercent distribution of women <strong>and</strong> men who had an STI <strong>and</strong>/or associated symptoms in the 12 months preceding the surveyby whether they informed partner(s) of their condition, <strong>and</strong> percentage who took specific actions to protect partner(s)from infection, according to STI/associated symptom, <strong>Zambia</strong> <strong>2001</strong>-<strong>2002</strong>–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Informed partner(s) Action taken to protect partner(s) Number––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– of women/No Stopped Used Partner menSome, partner/ having con- Used Any No already with anSymptom Yes not all No missing Total sex doms medicine action action infected STI–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––WOMEN–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––STI 90.5 0.0 6.0 3.4 100.0 35.5 13.9 47.3 53.7 12.6 30.3 184Genital discharge 70.8 0.5 24.1 4.6 100.0 34.9 13.4 35.1 47.7 27.4 18.4 186Genital sore/ulcer 74.6 0.4 20.3 4.7 100.0 29.7 12.9 31.6 43.8 31.1 19.6 255Total 72.3 0.3 21.6 5.9 100.0 32.0 11.2 33.8 45.7 29.1 18.1 398–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––MEN–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––STI 63.1 2.9 27.5 6.5 100.0 45.7 21.1 47.6 58.9 31.6 2.7 92Genital discharge 60.7 1.6 33.0 4.7 100.0 41.0 20.2 41.0 56.5 32.7 5.9 82Genital sore/ulcer 59.5 2.6 31.3 6.6 100.0 33.4 19.8 41.7 52.3 37.4 2.6 101Total 58.0 2.5 32.1 7.4 100.0 37.3 19.1 43.8 56.9 31.7 3.4 156The respondents were further asked what action they took to protect their partner(s) when theyhad an STI. Thirty-seven percent of men reported that they stopped having sex, 19 percent used condoms,44 percent used medicine. On the other h<strong>and</strong>, 32 percent of women stopped having sex, 11 percent218 | AIDS/HIV/STI-Related Knowledge <strong>and</strong> Behaviour

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