Characteristics of male perpetrators of intimate partner violence and implications for women's HIV status: A pooled analysis of cohabiting couples from 27 countries in Africa (2000-2020).

ABSTRACT: Intimate partner violence (IPV) may increase women's HIV acquisition risk. Still, knowledge on pathways through which IPV exacerbates HIV burden is emerging. We examined the individual and partnership-level characteristics of male perpetrators of physical and/or sexual IPV and considered their implications for women's HIV status. We pooled individual-level data from nationally representative, cross-sectional surveys in 27 countries in Africa (2000-2020) with information on past-year physical and/or sexual IPV and HIV serology among cohabiting couples (≥15 years). Current partners of women experiencing past-year IPV were assumed to be IPV perpetrators. We used Poisson regression, based on Generalized Estimating Equations, to estimate prevalence ratios (PR) for male partner and partnership-l

SUBMITTER: Kuchukhidze S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10482294 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature