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HIV/AIDS-RELATED KNOWLEDGE,<br />

13<br />

ATTITUDES, AND BEHAVIOUR<br />

Key Findings<br />

• Knowledge about HIV transmission and prevention:<br />

Forty-two percent of women and 48% of men have<br />

comprehensive knowledge about the modes of HIV<br />

transmission and prevention; this is only a slight increase<br />

from 2010.<br />

• Knowledge of mother-to-child transmission of HIV:<br />

Seventy-six percent of women and 72% of men know that<br />

HIV can be transmitted during pregnancy, 81% of women<br />

and 82% of men know that HIV can be transmitted during<br />

labour, and 87% of women and 88% of men know that<br />

HIV can be transmitted during breastfeeding.<br />

• Discriminatory attitudes: Nine percent of women and<br />

6% of men thought that children living with HIV should<br />

not be able to attend school with children who are HIV<br />

negative; <strong>16</strong>% of women and 12% of men would not buy<br />

fresh vegetables from a shopkeeper who has HIV.<br />

• Sexual partners: One percent of women reported having<br />

more than one sexual partner in the past 12 months;<br />

however, only 27% reported using a condom during the<br />

last sexual intercourse. Thirteen percent of men reported<br />

having more than one sexual partner in the past 12<br />

months. Of those, 30% reported using a condom during<br />

the last sexual intercourse.<br />

• Coverage of HIV tests: The vast majority of women<br />

(95%) and men (96%) know where to obtain an HIV test,<br />

but women are more likely than men to have ever been<br />

tested for HIV (83% versus 70%). However, in 12 months<br />

before the survey, about the same proportion of women<br />

and men had been tested for HIV (44% of women versus<br />

42% of men).<br />

T<br />

he Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS in its <strong>2015</strong> HIV and AIDS estimates stated that<br />

there were 980,000 adults and children living with HIV in <strong>Malawi</strong> 1 . The <strong>Malawi</strong> government has<br />

been at the forefront of developing and implementing innovative public health strategies that<br />

address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Beyond designing and being the first to implement Option B+, <strong>Malawi</strong> is<br />

also the first country to include Test-and-Start and the 90-90-90 objectives for epidemic control within its<br />

National Strategic Plan. <strong>Malawi</strong> initiated Test-and-Start in mid-20<strong>16</strong>, and has consistently adopted<br />

aggressive strategies in its HIV programming that has moved the country closer to epidemic control. The<br />

1<br />

Figures are based on <strong>2015</strong> UNAIDS estimates.<br />

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