Vietnam Population and AIDS Indicator Survey 2005 ... - Measure DHS

Table 5.1.2 Accepting attitudes towards those living with HIV: men
Among men age 15-49 who have heard of HIV/AIDS, percentage expressing accepting attitudes toward people with HIV, by background
characteristics, Vietnam 2005
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Percentage of men who:
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Would buy Believe Believe Number
Are fresh HIV-positive HIV-positive Percentage of
willing to care vegetables female teacher status of a family expressing men
for a family from should be member does accepting who have
Background member with shopkeeper allowed to not need to attitudes on all heard of
characteristic HIV at home with AIDS keep teaching remain a secret four measures 1 HIV/AIDS
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Age
15-24 96.5 60.5 62.3 44.5 26.9 2,262
15-19 96.2 59.8 62.5 43.7 26.8 1,369
20-24 96.9 61.6 62.0 45.8 27.0 893
25-29 96.2 64.0 62.9 50.7 28.7 869
30-39 95.5 60.2 60.3 55.1 29.8 1,630
40-49 96.2 60.3 63.0 53.5 28.6 1,607
Education
Never attended school 87.3 13.3 20.9 36.8 6.4 119
Primary 93.7 31.4 34.8 41.6 9.7 1,089
Secondary 96.6 65.2 65.8 51.3 30.4 4,502
More than secondary 98.4 88.8 88.9 60.4 49.0 658
Marital status
Never married 96.4 63.4 65.2 46.1 29.0 2,487
Ever had sex 98.3 69.6 68.1 38.1 21.7 204
Never had sex 96.3 62.8 65.0 46.8 29.6 2,283
Married/living together 95.9 59.5 60.2 53.1 28.1 3,823
Divorced/separated/widowed 98.4 47.0 53.1 51.6 11.3 58
Wealth quintile
Lowest 92.9 34.4 37.5 44.8 12.4 1,030
Second 95.9 53.4 52.7 45.6 21.7 1,226
Middle 96.0 66.0 65.1 54.9 32.5 1,347
Fourth 97.1 68.4 69.6 53.2 32.9 1,366
Highest 97.9 74.6 78.2 51.3 37.3 1,399
Residence
Urban 97.0 69.9 74.5 48.8 33.1 1,362
Rural 95.9 58.4 58.7 50.7 27.0 5,006
Region
North 95.6 66.5 66.1 61.4 37.2 2,297
Central 96.5 74.9 68.5 46.6 32.9 1,617
South 96.3 46.4 54.1 42.4 17.0 2,454
Targeted provinces
Ha Noi 96.2 84.0 78.6 53.0 39.3 217
Ho Chi Minh City 97.0 60.2 69.0 42.7 27.0 423
Hai Phong 97.3 64.2 77.1 55.4 30.7 139
Quang Ninh 98.0 70.7 75.2 61.9 44.1 92
Total 96.1 60.9 62.1 50.3 28.3 6,368
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1 Corresponds to President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Policy and Systems Strengthening (Capacity Building) Indicator 2 “Percentage of
the general population with accepting attitudes toward persons living with HIV/AIDS” and UNICEF-OVC Raising awareness to create a
supportive environment Indicator A7 “Stigma and discrimination.”
A composite indicator measuring accepting attitudes expressed in response to all four questions is
also shown in Tables 5.1.1 and 5.1.2. Only 23 percent of women and 28 percent of men express positive
attitudes on all four measures. It is interesting to note that in general, women and men express fairly
similar levels of acceptance on all the indicators across background characteristics. There is far less
variability between men and women in their attitudes than there is across other background
characteristics. The percentage expressing accepting attitudes increases with increasing education and
increasing wealth among both women and men.
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