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Published on: October 12, 2018
'Behold, a virgin is with HIV!' misreporting sexual behavior among infected adolescents
Vidhura Tennekoon1, Robert Rosenman
1Department of Economics, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, USA.
Abstract:
In four Southern African countries where the HIV prevalence rate is among the highest in the world, 46.4% of a sample of female adolescents infected with HIV report having never engaged in sex. This would indicate either the dominance of non-sexual modes of HIV transmission or rampant misreporting of sexual behavior in the sample. We propose a method to estimate the extent of misreporting and calculate that the true percentages of virgins among the sample of HIV-infected adolescent women is 32.1%. After accounting for misreporting, the contribution of sexual modes of HIV transmission is projected as 50.4%, compared with an estimate of 35.5% if we assume no misreporting.
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