Violence Toward Women, Men's Sexual Risk Factors, and HIV Infection Among Women

Jeanne Françoise Kayibanda · Raphaël Bitéra · Michel Alary

44 citations0/0 files storedJAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Intimate Partner and Family Violence HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: We used the third Rwanda demographic and health survey data to examine the relationship between violence toward women, men sexual risk factors, and HIV prevalence among women. METHODS: The Rwanda demographic and health survey was conducted in 10,272 households in 2005. Analyses were restricted to 2715 women and 2461 men who were legally married or cohabiting. We used logistic regression to analyze associations between HIV and violence toward women. Couple-specific analyses were carried out for assessing the relationship between men sexual risk factors and intimate partner violence (IPV) reported by their wives. RESULTS: Respectively, 29.2%, 22.2%, and 12.4% of women reported having experienced physical, psychological, and sexual IPV, whereas 52.1% reported control practices by their partners. There was a positive link between IPV reported by women and attitudes justifying wife beating endorsed by their husband. After controlling for sociodemographic variables and women sexual risk factors, the odds of HIV prevalence was 3.23 (confidence interval: 1.30 to 8.03) among women with a score from 3 to 4 on the psychological IPV scale compared with those with a score from 0 to 2. Women who reported having experienced interparental violence (father who beat mother) were more likely to test HIV positive as follows: adjusted odds ratio: 1.95; 95% confidence interval: 1.11 to 3.43. There was also a statistically significant relationship between men risky sexual factors and experience of IPV and HIV prevalence among women. CONCLUSIONS: Violence toward women is associated with HIV in Rwanda. Intervention to reduce gender-based violence should be integrated into HIV/AIDS policy.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 44 citations exist upstream.

References

2010Intimate partner violence, relationship power inequity, and incidence of HIV infection in young women in South Africa: a cohort study 2000The intersections of HIV and violence: directions for future research and interventions 2008The intersection of intimate partner violence against women and HIV/AIDS: a review 2002HIV-Positive Women Report More Lifetime Partner Violence: Findings From a Voluntary Counseling and Testing Clinic in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2003Childhood family violence history and women’s risk for intimate partner violence and poor health 2006Perpetration of partner violence and HIV risk behaviour among young men in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa 2008Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Infection Among Married Indian Women 2004Sexual violence against intimate partners in Cape Town: prevalence and risk factors reported by men.

Cited by

2018Prevalence and correlates of physical and sexual intimate partner violence among women living with HIV in Uganda 2017The relationship between intimate partner violence and HIV: A model-based evaluation 2022A systematic review of the effects of intimate partner violence on HIV-positive pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa 2021

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.