International Journal of Women's Health Care(IJWHC)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Publications

• Research Article   
  Egocentric Networks and HIV in Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women Attending Antenatal Care in Lusaka, Zambia
  Author(s): Kellie Freeborn*, Maria C. Ramos, Dana K. Pasquale, Rose Lungu, Benjamin H Chi and Oliver Mweemba
  
  Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has a disproportionate effect on pregnant and breastfeeding women in sub-Saharan Africa. This study used egocentric social network analysis (SNA) to compare the social and sexual networks of HIV-negative and HIV-positive women attending an antenatal care (ANC) clinic in Lusaka, Zambia. In order to assess risk and protective factors for HIV acquisition and transmission, variables included self (ego) sociodemographic characteristics, main partner characteristics, features of the relationship between ego and her main partner, alter attributes, alter-ego ties, and alter-alter ties. Associations between the independent variables and ego HIV status were identified using bivariate tests. Logistic regression analyses were performed to assess the relationship between predictors and ego HIV status when multiple variables were included in the same model. Overal.. Read More»
  

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