Zvoushe, Idah (2012) The Determinants of HIV and AIDS among Reproductive Age Groups in Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study between 1999 and 2005 Zimbabwe Demographic Health Surveys. Masters thesis, University of Zimbabwe.
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Abstract
Zimbabwe is in the mature stage of a generalized epidemic. This means that HIV is spreading throughout the general population rather than being confined to populations at higher risk, such as sex workers and their clients, men who have sex with men, and injecting drug users. An estimated 2.3 million Zimbabweans out of a population of 11.6 million people are living with HIV and AIDS (MOHCW 2009). Zimbabwe is the first Southern African country to record a significant drop in HIV prevalence rate in the adult age group (15-49). The rate dropped from 25% in 2003 to 20% in 2005 to 18% in 2006, 15.1 in 2008 (Government of Zimbabwe 2006) 14.3% in 2009 and ultimately 13.7 in 2010 (MOHCW 2009). However, this level remains unacceptably high, especially when compared with Western Countries like the U.S.A where the prevalence rate is below 0.5%. Thus, there is great need for Zimbabwe to attain such a figure. This study seeks to identify the major factors which have contributed to the decline of the HIV prevalence rate in Zimbabwe. It is also important to find the determinants of HIV infection which have shifted the prevalence of HIV in Zimbabwe, how they have changed and which determinants are resistant to change. It is also of importance to determine what can be done to enhance the decline of HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe. In addition adolescents bear the brunt of the epidemic; it is therefore important to understand their knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices underlying HIV/AIDS if policies are to be redirected to meet their needs. There is also gender bias in infection rates at younger ages with women bearing the brunt of infection. Thus, adolescents have since been highlighted as a group in need of sexual and reproductive health information services. Many people get infected in youth and die in adulthood between 25 to 49 years of age, in their most productive and reproductive ages. These shattering rates among the adolescents are clear testimony of Zimbabwe’s failure to capitalize on its “window of hope”, the 0-15 year olds.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | JHI Africa |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jun 2016 14:21 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jun 2016 14:21 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/422 |
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