Socio-Economic and Cultural Determinants of HIV/AIDS in Botswana: The Logistic Regression Analysis
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Abstract
The paper investigates the determinants of HIV/ AIDS in Botswana in the changing aspects of HIV transmission using the BAIV IV data. With the use of the logistic regression model, the paper investigates the nature of relationships between; socio-economic and cultural variables; and HIV infection. The sample extracted from the BAIS IV data comprises of both male and female individuals aged between 15 and 49 years. Results indicated that the most important factors that affect the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Botswana are socio-economic variables. People with the lower level of education (no education and informal education) are the most affected groups, and the higher education level one progresses to, the lower the likelihood of the HIV infection that individual is likely to have. The paper recommends that policymakers should improve the quality of education in Botswana. Efforts should be made to improve the non-formal and primary education levels and include HIV/AIDS as part of the syllabus. Furthermore, policymakers should focus more on job creation measures to reduce unemployment. Getting people out of poverty would help people avoid the practice of unsafe behaviours for survival purposes.
Keywords
HIV/AIDS, Socio-economic, Cultural, Logistic regression, Botswana
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