Perception Of Intimate Partner Violence And Risk Of Hiv Infection Among Women In South West

ABSTRACT

Gender based violence induces power imbalances where, most often, men are the

perpetrators and women the victims. Intimate partner violence is a form of gender based

violence that is caused by intimate partners. Intimate partner violence occurs between two

people in an intimate relationship. Violence is rampant even among Couples may be dating,

cohabiting or married and violence can occur in or outside of the home. Youth and young adults

in Nigeria are particularly vulnerable to HIV, with young women at higher risk than young

men. The main aim of this research is to investigate the influence of intimate partner violence

on the risk of HIV infections among women in Nigeria. Secondary data was used from

National HIV & AIDS and Reproductive health survey (NARHS plus II, 2012), also, primary

data in the form of in-depth interview was done to complement the secondary data. For the indepth

interview, 7 women were interviewed for the in-depth interview. 31,235 individuals were

successfully interviewed, a total of 24,152 of the respondents were successfully tested for HIV.

For the univariate analysis, frequency distribution and percentages of the variables was gotten.

For the Bivariate analysis, chi-square was used to check for the relationship between variables

and for the Multivariate analysis, binary logistic regression was used because the dependent

variable is dichotomous (HIV statns: positive or negative). From the univariate analysis, 7% of

respondents experienced intimate partner violence, 83% of respondents did not experienced

partner violence, while 10% of respondents don't know if they experienced partner violence.

Furthermore, 4% ofrespondents had HIV, while 96% ofrespondents were diagnosed negative.

The bivariate analysis revealed there is a significant relationship between those respondents

who are currently married and HIV Status with x2 =12.7457, P=0,005, while there is a

significant relationship between those respondents who refuse sex with their husband and HIV

Status with x2 =9.50005, P=0,005. The multivariate analysis revealed that there is a significant

relationship between those respondents who are ever married and HIV status with OR=l.04,

0.3981-0.8420(95% Conf.Interval). Also, there is a significant relationship between age of

respondents and HIV status with p=0.000, 2.4275-4.5566 (95% Conf.Interval). Also, there is a

significant relationship between those respondents who refuse to have sex with their husband

and HIV status with OR=2.l 7, 1.2890-1.9612 (95% Conf.Interval). There is a significant

relationship between those respondents who do not experience partner violence and HIV status

with OR=! .20, 2.5079-3.9204 (95% Conf.Interval), and also, there is a significant relationship

between those respondents who do not know they experience partner violence and HIV status

with OR=l.38, 1.8495-3.8239 (95% Conf.Interval). furthermore, there is a significant

relationship between those respondents who had their first sex at age 15- 24 and HIV status

with OR=3.32, 1.9715-3.1599 (95% Conf.Interval), there is a significant relationship between

those respondents who had their first sex at age 25- 34 and HIV status with OR=2.46, 1.3697-

4.4354 (95% Conf.Interval). Other indices are not significant. The study concludes that marital

status, occupation, religion, age, age at first sex, refuses sex with him and other form of

violence are good indicators of HIV infection. Efforts should be geared towards mitigating

violence against women especially violence among intimate partners which is rearing its head in this 21st century.