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Title Men's migration, women's personal networks, and responses to HIV/AIDS in Mozambique.
Full text https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79k941tq
Date 2013
Author(s) Avogo, Winfred; Agadjanian, Victor
Abstract This study brings together the literature on social network approaches to social capital and health and on migration and HIV risks to examine how non-migrating wives of labor migrants use their personal networks to cope with perceived risks of HIV infection in rural southern Mozambique. Using data from a 2006 survey of 1,680 women and their dyadic interactions, we compare the composition of personal networks, HIV/AIDS communication, and preventive behavior of women married to migrants and those married to non-migrants. Results show that migrants' wives were more likely than non-migrants' wives to have other migrants' wives as personal network members, to engage in HIV/AIDS communication, and to discuss HIV prevention. However, they were no more likely to talk about HIV/AIDS with migrants' wives than with non-migrants' wives. They were also no more likely to talk about AIDS and its prevention than non-migrants' wives who express worry about HIV infection from their spouses. Finally, we detect that network members' prevention behavior was similar to respondents', although this did not depend on migration. We contextualize these findings within the literature and discuss their policy implications.
Subject(s) Humans; HIV Infections; Communication; Sexual Behavior; Spouses; Peer Group; Social Support; Adolescent; Adult; Transients and Migrants; Mozambique; Female; Male; Young Adult; labor migration; personal networks; HIV/AIDS; social capital; homophily; selection; social influence; health; sub-Saharan Africa; Prevention; Infectious Diseases; Clinical Research; Behavioral and Social Science; 3.1 Primary prevention interventions to modify behaviours or promote wellbeing; Prevention of disease and conditions; and promotion of well-being; Infection; Toxicology
Coverage 892 - 912
Publisher eScholarship, University of California
Type of publication article
Format application/pdf
Source International journal of environmental research and public health, vol 10, iss 3
Rights public
Identifier qt79k941tq
Repository Berkeley - University of California
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