Male victims of sexual violence in rural Malawi: The overlooked association with HIV infection

SamaelET · 2022-02-01T23:44:00+00:00

In 2010, cross-sectional data on HIV risk behaviors, HIV status, and IPV was collected from a sample of 684 mostly-married men in rural Malawi. Bivariate analyses were used to examine differences in HIV risk characteristics between victims and non-victims of sexual coercion.

One-tenth (10.4%) of men experienced sexual coercion. Table 1 shows that men who experienced sexual coercion were more likely to be married (p<0.05), older (p<0.05), physically abused by a female partner (p<0.001), believed their partners were at higher risk for HIV (p<0.05), and had consumed alcohol in the past month (p<0.01).

Table 2 shows that the unadjusted odds of being HIV positive were 6.6 times higher for men who had experienced sexual coercion (p<0.000). After controlling for other covariates, the odds of being HIV positive were 7.2 times higher among men who had experienced sexual coercion (p<0.000).

The difference in infection rates between victims and non victims men should not be considerate as accurate in my opinion because the sample is too small. But we can safely assume that male victims are more likely to be infected than non victims.

The sexual coercion rates is probaby higher than what they find :

Several limitations are noteworthy. First, sexual coercion was a binary variable and only captured a single dimension of sexual coercion against men.

Title	Male victims of sexual violence in rural Malawi: The overlooked association with HIV infection
Author	SamaelET
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Date	February 1, 2022 11:36 PM UTC (4 years ago)
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