Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Violence is a risk factor for HIV infection that must be addressed through multilevel prevention approaches. There is growing evidence linking the epidemics of HIV and violence against women.
HIV prevalence rates among young aged 15β24 years women and men is Increasingly, violence and threats of violence are emerging as important factors fueling the rapidly increasing HIV epidemic among women. This report describes the meaning of partner violence in the Tanzanian context, and the forms this violence assumes, and it identifies the prevalence and correlates of violence against women who use HIV voluntary counseling and testing VCT services in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
The goal of the first phase of research was to define violence in the local context; to describe the HIV testing and serostatus disclosure decision-making process among men, women, and couples findings have been reported elsewhere 23 ; and to develop the survey instruments for use in the second phase.
The second phase of research measured the prevalence and identified the correlates of violence among women enrolled immediately after their HIV pretest counseling session and before receiving test results in the posttest counseling session.
To be enrolled in the study, women had to be at least 18 years of age, have a primary sexual partner for at least the past 3 months, and plan to reside in Dar es Salaam for at least the next 3 months. On average, women were 32 years old and had 9. The only factor that was statistically different between women who were followed up and those lost to follow-up was the baseline report of violence with their current partner before the past year In phase 1 of data collection, we asked informants to define violence in Kiswahili, to identify situations in which violence may be justified, to describe how violence is used by people in the community, and to narrate personal experiences with violence in their intimate partnerships.
