Demographic and Health Survey 2009-10 - Timor-Leste Ministry of ...

Comprehensive knowledge about AIDS is also higher among urban than rural residents,
presumably because of better access to information through the mass media in urban than in rural
areas. Comprehensive knowledge is positively related to education and wealth, increasing from 4
percent and 3 percent among women and men with no education, to 34 percent and 55 percent among
women and men with more than secondary education. A similar pattern is observed with regard to
comprehensive knowledge and wealth for both women and men.
14.2 ATTITUDES TOWARD PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS
Knowledge and beliefs about HIV infection affect how people treat those they know to be
living with HIV or AIDS. In the 2009-10 TLDHS, a number of questions were posed to respondents
to measure their attitudes towards people living with HIV or AIDS (PLHA), including questions about
their willingness to buy vegetables from an infected shopkeeper, to let others know the HIV status of
family members, and to take care of relatives who have HIV in their own household. They were also
asked whether an HIV-positive female teacher who is not sick should be allowed to continue teaching.
Tables 14.4.1 and 14.4.2 show the percentages who express positive attitudes towards people living
with HIV among women and men who have heard about the virus, by background characteristics.
Table 14.4.1 Accepting attitudes toward those living with HIV/AIDS: Women
Among women age 15-49 who have heard of AIDS, percentage expressing specific accepting attitudes toward people with AIDS, by background
characteristics, Timor-Leste 2009-10
Percentage of women who:
Say that a female
Are willing to care
teacher with the Would not want to Percentage
for a family Would buy fresh AIDS virus and is keep secret that a expressing
member with the vegetables from not sick should be family member got acceptance Number of women
Background
AIDS virus in the shopkeeper who allowed to infected with the attitudes on all who have heard of
characteristic
Age
respondent’s home has the AIDS virus continue teaching AIDS virus four indicators AIDS
15-24 54.7 35.1 45.9 82.5 10.8 2,929
15-19 53.2 34.5 44.9 81.0 9.8 1,629
20-24 56.5 35.8 47.2 84.3 12.0 1,299
25-29 56.4 35.0 45.3 84.7 10.3 900
30-39 56.0 33.1 42.7 85.7 12.2 1,229
40-49
Marital status
53.0 31.7 38.3 87.6 11.4 690
Never married 54.3 35.2 45.1 82.5 10.6 2,634
Ever had sex * * * * * 24
Never had sex 54.4 35.4 45.3 82.5 10.7 2,610
Married/living together
Divorced/separated/
55.4 33.0 43.6 85.8 11.4 2,952
widowed
Residence
59.2 40.6 41.5 79.7 12.4 162
Urban 60.1 36.4 45.3 83.9 13.7 2,410
Rural
District
51.4 32.6 43.4 84.3 9.2 3,338
Aileu 56.7 38.9 56.0 94.7 16.6 201
Ainaro 68.8 21.6 45.8 76.1 4.0 178
Baucau 25.1 27.2 17.0 94.1 0.2 765
Bobonaro 45.1 48.7 42.7 68.6 9.0 499
Covalima 80.5 41.9 53.7 91.7 15.1 379
Dili 59.9 36.4 41.9 82.7 13.6 1,965
Ermera 48.4 17.0 14.6 89.5 0.5 212
Lautem 53.8 19.4 65.3 67.3 8.5 313
Liquiçá 59.1 40.0 55.6 79.1 15.3 272
Manatuto 61.9 18.9 69.6 89.1 6.9 314
Manufahi 28.7 39.6 49.8 84.5 7.2 171
Oecussi 71.0 36.6 44.2 89.6 19.6 244
Viqueque
Education
75.7 44.4 76.5 92.1 31.1 236
No education 42.5 29.0 33.5 84.6 9.8 493
Primary 54.2 32.1 39.3 83.0 10.7 806
Secondary 55.8 34.6 46.2 83.7 10.7 4,013
More than secondary
Wealth quintile
63.7 40.5 47.1 89.3 16.6 436
Lowest 51.0 27.2 41.3 86.0 8.4 465
Second 42.1 26.5 38.7 86.8 7.7 648
Middle 55.5 36.8 44.6 80.9 9.8 897
Fourth 55.2 35.3 46.2 83.2 11.4 1,314
Highest 58.9 36.1 45.1 84.7 12.8 2,425
Total 15-49 55.0 34.2 44.2 84.1 11.1 5,748
Note: An asterisk indicates that a figure is based on fewer than 25 unweighted cases and has been suppressed.
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