Why are virgin adolescents worried about contracting HIV/AIDS? Evidence from four sub-Saharan African countries : original research article
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Abstract
Whether well founded or not, perceptions of one's own HIV risk have been shown by health behavior models to be an important factor in determining individuals' sexual behavior. Although empirical studies on the determinants of HIV risk perception exist, only a few have focused on adolescents who are not yet sexually active. Using data from nationally-representative surveys of adolescents, we assess the factors associated with HIV risk perception among sexually inactive adolescents in four sub-Saharan African countries at different stages of the HIV/AIDS epidemic (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda). The results show that there is no single influence on adolescents' HIV risk perception, but rather a range of individual, environmental and community factors such as schooling, knowledge about HIV, regional HIV prevalence and adolescents' social networks. These results can help better calibrate programs and policies addressing sexual and reproductive health issues among adolescents, a group that is disproportionately affected by new HIV infections. Les modeles comportementaux en sante ont demontre que, fondees ou non, les perceptions individuelles du risque vis-a-vis du VIH constituent un facteur important qui determine le comportement sexuel des individus. Cependant, bien qu'il existe des etudes empiriques sur les determinants de la perception du risque du VIH, seuls quelques-uns ont mis l'accent sur les adolescents qui ne sont pas encore sexuellement actifs. En nous appuyant sur des donnees d'enquetes representatives au niveau national, nous evaluons les facteurs associes a la perception du risque vis-a-vis du VIH chez les adolescents sexuellement inactifs dans quatre pays d'Afrique sub-saharienne a differents stades de l'epidemie du VIH/Sida (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi et Ouganda). Les resultats montrent qu'il n'existe pas une influence unique de la perception du risque du VIH chez l'adolescent, mais plutot un faisceau de facteurs individuels, environnementaux et communautaires au nombre desquels la scolarisation, les connaissances sur le VIH, la prevalence regionale du VIH et les reseaux sociaux des adolescents. Ces resultats peuvent aider a mieux calibrer les programmes et les politiques portant sur les questions de sante sexuelle et reproductive chez les adolescents, un groupe qui est touche de facon disproportionnee par les nouvelles infections a VIH.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.014 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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