Socio-economic factors of misconception about HIVAIDS among ever-married women in punjab : a comparison of non-spatial and spatial hierarchical bayesian poisson model

Abstract EN

Combating HIV/AIDS is the third goal of sustainable development goals and has become an increasing health concern in Pakistan.

on 25 April 2019, the nearby organization in Larkana locale was cautioned by media reports of a flood in human immunodeficiency infection (HIV) cases among youngsters in Ratodero Taluka, Larkana region, Sindh region, Pakistan.

From 25 April through 28 June 2019, a sum of 30,192 individuals have been screened for HIV, of which 876 were discovered positive.

eighty-two percent (719/876) of these were underneath the age of 15 years.

the only way to combat HIV transmission is to provide accurate knowledge about how the disease is spread to the general public and especially to women of child bearing age (15-49 years).

prevention of HIV and misconceptions about its transmission are related.

therefore, the present study aimed to identify the spatial distribution of three misconceptions of HIV transmission (transmission by mosquito bite, supernatural means and sharing food with an HIV positive person).

this study also provides the core socio-economic factors needed to stop misconceptions about HIV/AIDS transmission, which will help in reducing the spread of the epidemic in pakistan.

spatial and non-spatial bayesian hierarchical models were applied.

the results show that the conditional autoregressive bayesian hierarchical models (Spatial Model) are a more appropriate regression model in the presence of spatial dependence.