Open AccessIntimate Partner Violence Functions as Both a Risk Marker and Risk Factor for Women's HIV Infection: Findings From Indian Husband-Wife Dyads
Author(s) -
Michele R. Decker,
George R. Seage,
David Hemenway,
Anita Raj,
Niranjan Saggurti,
Balaiah Donta,
Jay G. Silverman
Publication year - 2009
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.0b013e3181a255d6
Subject(s) - domestic violence , odds ratio , demography , logistic regression , medicine , marital status , context (archaeology) , risk factor , poison control , confidence interval , odds , injury prevention , psychology , population , biology , environmental health , sociology , paleontology
Female victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) consistently demonstrate elevated sexually transmitted infection/HIV prevalence. IPV is thought to function indirectly as a marker of abusive men's elevated sexually transmitted infection/HIV infection and/or directly via facilitating transmission to wives. The present examination utilizes a nationally representative sample of married Indian couples to test these mechanisms and determine whether (1) abusive husbands demonstrate higher HIV infection prevalence compared with nonabusive husbands and (2) the risk of wives' HIV infection based on husbands' HIV infection varies as a function of their exposure to IPV.