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

HIV or AIDS on all four indicators ranges among women from a low of less than one percent in
Baucau to a high of 31 percent in Viqueque, and among men from a low of 0 percent in Baucau,
Covalima, Ermera, Manufahi, and Viqueque to a high of 30 percent among men in Aileu.
Furthermore, women and men with more than secondary education and women living in the
wealthiest households are also most likely to accept people living with HIV or AIDS. The relationship
between wealth and acceptance among men is less clear.
14.3 RISKY BEHAVIORS
The 2009-10 TLDHS included questions on respondents’ sexual partners during the 12
months preceding the survey. For male respondents, an additional question was asked about whether
they paid for sex during the 12 months preceding the interview. Information on the use of condoms at
the last sexual encounter with each partner in the last 12 months was collected from both women and
men. Finally, sexually active women and men were asked about the total number of partners they had
had during their lifetime. These questions are, of course, sensitive, and in interpreting the results in
this section it is important to remember that respondents’ answers may be subject to some reporting
bias. The discussion below focuses primarily on men because less than 1 percent of women reported
having multiple sexual partners, and a separate analysis is not statistically meaningful.
14.3.1 Multiple Sexual Partners and Higher-risk Sexual Intercourse
Table 14.5 presents information collected from men who had ever had intercourse about the
number of sexual partners they had had during the 12-month period before the survey and the mean
number of sexual partners that a man has had during his lifetime.
Just over 1 percent of men age 15-49 reported having had two or more sexual partners during
the 12 months prior to the survey, with men reporting a mean number of just under two partners in
their lifetimes. Among men with two or more partners in the 12 months preceding the survey, 19
percent used a condom at last sex (data not presented). The differentials presented in Table 14.5 show
that the percentage of men with two or more partners in the 12 months before the survey is higher
among men age 25-29 than among younger and older men; higher among divorced, separated, or
widowed men than among currently married or never married men; higher among urban than rural
men; higher among highly educated men than among those with little or no education; and higher
among men in the fourth and highest wealth quintiles. Due to the low number of men in the survey
reporting multiple partners in the past 12 months, it is not possible to examine differentials in use of a
condom at last sex among men with multiple partners.
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