1) Percentage of women and men age 15-49 who do not think that children living with HIV should be able to attend school with children who are HIV negative.
2) Percentage of women and men age 15-49 who would not buy fresh vegetables from a shopkeeper who has HIV.
3) Percentage of women and men age 15-49 who have discriminatory attitudes towards people living with HIV.
Coverage:
Population base: Women and men age 15-49 [who have heard of HIV or AIDS] (IR file, MR file)
Time period: Current status at time of survey
Numerators:
1) Number of women (or men) who respond “No” to the question, “Do you think children living with HIV be able to attend school with children who do not have HIV?” (women: v857a = 0; men: mv857a = 0)
2) Number of women (or men) who respond “No” to the question, “Would you buy fresh vegetables from a shopkeeper or vendor if you knew that this person had HIV?” (women: v825 = 0; men: mv825 = 0)
3) Number of women (or men) who respond “No” to either of the two questions listed above (women: v857a = 0 or v825 = 0; men: mv857a = 0 or mv825 = 0)
Denominator: Number of women (or men) age 15-49
Variables: IR file, MR file.
|
v751 |
Ever heard of HIV or AIDS (women) |
|
v857a |
Children with HIV should be allowed to attend school with children without HIV (women) |
|
v825 |
Would buy vegetables from vendor with HIV (women) |
|
v005 |
Woman’s individual sample weight |
|
mv751 |
Ever heard of HIV or AIDS (men) |
|
mv857a |
Children with HIV should be allowed to attend school with children without HIV (men) |
|
mv825 |
Would buy vegetables from vendor with HIV (men) |
|
mv005 |
Man’s individual sample weight |
The numerator divided by the denominator, expressed as a percentage.
Respondents are considered to have discriminatory attitudes only if they respond “No” on either question. Missing values or responses that are “Don’t know/Not sure/Depends” are not considered to represent discriminatory attitudes.
Previous DHS questionnaires had a different list of questions to assess HIV-related stigma. The two included in the DHS-7 and DHS-8 questionnaire and tabulation plan are in line with UNAIDS Global AIDS Monitoring (GAM) indicator 6.1 on discriminatory attitudes.
As of DHS-8, the question on having heard of HIV or AIDS may be removed in surveys where knowledge of HIV is very high. In surveys where this question is removed, it is assumed that all respondents have heard of HIV or AIDS.
UNAIDS. 2017. Global AIDS Monitoring 2018: Indicators for monitoring the 2016 United Nations Political Declaration on Ending AIDS http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/documents/2018/Global-AIDS-Monitoring
DHS-8 Tabulation plan: Table 13.2
API Indicator IDs:
HA_AATT_W_VEG, HA_AATT_M_VEG
UNAIDS Global AIDS Monitoring (GAM) indicator 6.1: “Discriminatory attitudes towards people living with HIV”
MICS6 Indicator TM.31: Discriminatory attitudes towards people living with HIV