Contraception in Sub-Saharan Africa

About the much less financially advantageous...

TermsEpidemic - large outbreak, one that spreads among a population or region
Pandemic - generally refers to an epidemic that has spread on a more global scale

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2002

Poverty, Risky Sexual Behaviour, and Vulnerability to HIV Infection: Evidence from South Africa

Used data from the 1998 South African Demographic and Health Survey.
South Africa is one of the countries worst affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

...unsafe sexual practices, often due to a lack of knowledge, lack of access to means of protection, and inability to negotiate condom use with sexual partners as a result of entrenched gender roles and power relations (3,6-12).

There is little evidence that poverty is associated with risky sexual behavior, although poorer women are slightly less likely to have necessary knowledge on HIV/AIDS...

https://ourworldindata.org/hiv-aids

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23498915

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2006

Poverty and HIV/AIDS in South Africa: an empirical contribution

Also used data from the 1998 South African Demographic and Health Survey.

...non-use of condoms among the non-poor due to low perceived risk of HIV infection implies that HIV prevention programmes are not really succeeding in removing the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS.


https://doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2006.9724863

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2008
Does Community Clustering Mitigate the Negative Effect Of Poverty on Adolescent Condom Use in South Africa?

Poverty remains a central factor for a young woman's risk of HIV, even after controlling for shared characteristics within her community.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27642867

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2011
Dimensions of poverty and inconsistent condom use among youth in urban Kenya

n = 261
Condoms were used inconsistently in 57% of months and were never used in 31%.
Corroborating existing literature, lower household wealth and lower educational attainment were associated with inconsistent condom use. Lower individual economic status (lower earned income, food insufficiency, and larger material transfers from partners) were also important determinants.
The lowest level of schooling, lower amounts of income, and larger amounts of money and gifts received from sexual partners were associated with inconsistent condom use.

DOI:10.1080/09540121.2011.555744.

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