Open AccessPengetahuan Perempuan Indonesia Tentang HIV/AIDS
Author(s) -
Lilik Iswanto
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
populasi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2476-941X
pISSN - 0853-0262
DOI - 10.22146/jp.27030
Subject(s) - spouse , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , transmission (telecommunications) , developing country , statistic , medicine , health education , family medicine , descriptive statistics , economic growth , sociology , public health , nursing , computer science , statistics , telecommunications , anthropology , economics , mathematics
HIV/AIDS is a serious health problem in the world, including in Indonesia. It has a huge impact in economic, social and political aspects. There fore research regarding the knowledge of HIV/AIDS become important. This paper explores women’s knowledge of HIV/AIDS in Indonesua using secondary data from Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) 2007. In measuring the knowledge indicator used such as have you ever heard about HIV/AIDS, knowledge of the transmission abd HIV/AIDS prevention. Statistic descriptive, composit and binary logistic were using to answer the research problem. The result shows that women’s knowledge in HIV/AIDS is fairly good. The main factor which influence women’s knowledge of HIV/AIDS is their level of education along with their spouse. Women who have finished their education in senior high has twice better knowledge on HIV/AIDS compared to those who did not finish.