Zambia Demographic and Health Survey 2001-2002 - Measure DHS

The practice of having multiple partners is more common among respondents who are in their twenties.Western province has the largest proportion (30 percent of men and 5 percent of women) who had multiplesexual partners. The proportion of respondents reporting multiple sexual partners varies significantlyamong provinces, with women and men in Western province much more likely to report such partnershipsthan those in other provinces. For both unmarried women and men, those with higher than secondaryeducation are less likely to report multiple sexual partners. Figure 13.3 shows that unmarried men in allprovinces are more likely to report at least two sexual partners than their female counterparts.Figure 13.3 Percentage of Unmarried Women and Menwith at Least Two Partners, by Province3530Percent302520151050121Central318Copperbelt201 1164229173 2 2Eastern Luapula Lusaka Northern North-Western10Southern5WesternProvinceWomenMenZDHS 2001-200213.11.2 Knowledge of Condom Sources and Condom Use for Disease PreventionCondom use is one of the programmatically emphasised approaches to avoiding STI infection.Therefore, knowledge of, access to, and use of condoms are essential to controlling the spread of STIs.Table 13.20 shows that knowledge of a source for male condoms was found to be 78 percent for womenand 83 percent for men. The level of knowledge increases with increasing level of education. Knowledgeis also higher in urban than in rural areas. Variation by province and by marital status is less pronounced.Table 13.20 further shows that only 45 percent of women say they could get a condom if theywanted, compared with 72 percent of men. Variations are similar to those observed in the knowledge ofwhere to get a male condom.AIDS/HIV/STI-Related Knowledge and Behaviour | 221