Brief Report: Age-Disparate Relationships and HIV Prevalence Among Never Married Women in Rakai, Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Age-disparate relationships are associated with increased HIV prevalence. We determined whether the frequency of age-disparate relationships in never married women changed over time and whether they are associated with HIV prevalence in Rakai, Uganda.

Methods

A total of 10,061 never married women, aged 15-49 years, in the Rakai Community Cohort Study provided information on the age of their male sexual partners from 1997 to 2013. Logistic regression was used to assess trends in age-disparate relationships (≥5 years) between never married women and their male partners. Log-binomial regression was used to estimate adjusted prevalence ratios (adjPR) of HIV prevalence associated with age-disparate relationships.

Results

Two thousand nine hundred ninety-nine wom

SUBMITTER: Mwinnyaa G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6205753 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature