Socio-demographic and behavioural factors associated with prominent misconceptions of HIV/AIDS transmission among ever married women in Sri Lanka: An application of modelling correlated binary outcomes using a bridge distribution function
N.M. De Alwis,
N. Withanage,
C.L. Jayasinghe
et al.
Abstract:Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) case reporting usually represents only the trending pattern of HIV infected people in Sri Lanka. Having a decent level of knowledge about HIV largely contributes to preventing HIV prevalence in the country. People with HIV are not hazardous to the public who live together with them and with whom they have ordinary, non-sexual contact. However, suffering from HIV in a culture like Sri Lanka generates an extreme level of stigmatizing by people living with HIV and many psycholog… Show more
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