Discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients and associated factors among women in East African countries: using the most recent DHS data (2015–2022)

Table 2 Sociodemographic and maternal-related characteristics of respondent’s discriminatory attitudes toward people living with HIV/AIDS among reproductive age women in East African countries (weighted n = 139,812)

Variables	Categories	Frequency	Percentage
Age in years	15–24	56,573	40.46
	25–34	43,463	31.09
	35–49	39,776	28.45
Residence	Urban	38,085	27.24
Residence	Rural	101,727	72.76
Mothers’ educational status	No education	21,061	15.06
	Primary	64,640	46.23
	Secondary and higher	54,111	38.70
Mother is employed	No	54,968	39.32
Mother is employed	Yes	84,844	60.68
Wealth index	Poorest	23,147	16.56
	Poorer	25,076	17.94
	Middle	26,485	18.94
	Richer	29,526	21.12
	Richest	35,579	25.45
Mass media exposure	No	68,051	48.67
Mass media exposure	Yes	71,761	51.33
Contraceptive methods	No method	87,890	62.86
	Traditional methods	3646	2.61
	Modern methods	48,276	34.53
Number of health visits in the past 12 months	Once	110,959	79.36
Number of health visits in the past 12 months	More than one	28,853	20.64
Distance from health facility	Not a big problem	50,204	35.91
Distance from health facility	A big problem	89,608	64.09
Visited by field worker in the past 12 months	No	118,023	84.42
Visited by field worker in the past 12 months	Yes	21,789	15.58
Currently breastfeeding	No	104,607	74.82
Currently breastfeeding	Yes	35,205	25.18
Marital status	Not married	70,898	50.71
Marital status	Married	68,914	49.29
HIV comprehensive knowledge(n = 30,298)	No	7314	24.14
HIV comprehensive knowledge(n = 30,298)	Yes	22,984	75.86
ANC follow-ups	No	3740	2.68
ANC follow-ups	At least one	136,072	97.32
Place of delivery	Home	14,331	10.25
Place of delivery	Health facility	125,481	89.75
Sex of the household head	Male	97,026	69.40
Sex of the household head	Female	42,786	30.60

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