Open AccessUse of Antenatal Clinic Surveillance to Assess the Effect of Sexual Behavior on HIV Prevalence in Young Women in Karonga District, Malawi
Author(s) -
Amelia C. Crampin,
Andreas Jahn,
Masiya Kondowe,
Bagrey Ngwira,
Joanne Hemmings,
Judith R. Glynn,
Sian Floyd,
Paul E. M. Fine,
Basia Żaba
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0b013e31817236c4
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , marital status , socioeconomic status , odds , odds ratio , young adult , proxy (statistics) , environmental health , logistic regression , population , gerontology , pathology , machine learning , sociology , computer science
Antenatal clinic (ANC) surveillance is the primary source of HIV prevalence estimates in low-resource settings. In younger women, prevalence approximates incidence. Sexual behavior monitoring to explain HIV distribution and trends is seldom attempted in ANC surveys. We explore the use of marital history in ANC surveillance as a proxy for sexual behavior.