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• HIVAIDS-related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior
Table 13.6.2 Accepting attitudes toward those living with HIVAIDS: Men Among ever-married men age 15-49 who have heard of HIVAIDS, percentage expressing specific accepting attitudes toward people with
HIVAIDS, by background characteristics, Afghanistan 2015 Percentage of men who:
Percentage expressing
acceptance attitudes on all
four indicators Number of men
who have heard of AIDS
Background characteristic
Are willing to care for a family
member with AIDS in the
respondents home
Would buy fresh vegetables from
shopkeeper who has HIV
Say that a female teacher who has
the AIDS virus but is not sick should
be allowed to continue teaching
Would not want to keep secret that a
family member got infected with
HIV
Age
15-24 39.5
28.4 29.0
62.5 4.4
747 15-19
48.4 27.2
21.5 51.3
2.2 72
20-24 38.6
28.5 29.8
63.7 4.6
675 25-29
40.1 29.4
32.8 66.3
6.8 1,397
30-39 37.5
25.7 26.2
67.5 5.3
2,356 40-49
37.5 26.2
26.6 70.5
5.3 1,787
Marital status
Married 38.4
26.9 28.1
67.6 5.5
6,250 DivorcedSeparated
Widowed 31.7
31.9 31.7
52.8 10.6
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Residence
Urban 46.3
28.5 38.6
65.4 8.6
1,799 Rural
35.1 26.3
23.9 68.3
4.3 4,488
Province
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Kabul 40.0
25.2 36.6
65.6 4.3
919 Kapisa
2.6 28.7
14.9 98.1
0.0 48
Parwan 25.0
10.4 20.0
54.0 6.6
157 Wardak
47.1 26.7
22.1 81.4
5.5 68
Logar 14.7
57.9 21.6
65.9 1.1
132 Nangarhar
31.0 24.5
21.8 79.9
6.0 174
Laghman 34.4
19.6 8.2
73.2 1.5
172 Panjsher
6.7 30.6
30.6 84.5
0.0 11
Baghlan 14.7
47.9 47.1
88.8 2.6
134 Bamyan
23.3 18.9
16.0 85.3
1.5 32
Ghazni 33.2
46.5 31.7
49.0 1.6
272 Paktika
58.3 50.3
51.8 31.7
5.7 76
Paktya 37.8
35.3 31.1
64.9 3.9
192 Khost
34.8 7.3
5.6 97.1
1.2 306
Kunarha 31.8
17.1 14.7
61.8 1.0
103 Nooristan
32.3 21.9
10.3 43.8
3.3 13
Badakhshan 66.9
19.6 21.7
9.0 0.2
111 Takhar
18.0 16.1
9.4 53.7
0.3 159
Kunduz 46.7
28.8 44.4
54.0 3.8
289 Samangan
13.7 6.9
37.4 80.3
0.3 41
Balkh 8.2
6.8 14.6
76.6 0.4
300 Sar-E-Pul
39.2 9.7
8.0 84.0
2.5 89
Ghor 19.9
33.8 10.9
80.8 0.0
152 Daykundi
8.1 20.5
15.5 61.9
0.0 25
Urozgan 12.3
0.0 0.0
67.6 0.0
11 Kandahar
74.8 29.5
45.4 65.3
16.0 503
Jawzjan 22.7
2.2 2.9
80.0 0.0
142 Faryab
27.1 32.7
26.4 72.9
6.4 500
Helmand 18.9
5.5 1.1
81.6 0.0
281 Badghis
74.2 6.0
22.1 54.9
0.2 73
Herat 57.3
43.2 48.0
67.7 17.8
670 Farah
73.2 61.1
39.3 23.7
6.6 115
Nimroz 6.6
0.0 2.5
28.3 0.0
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Education
No education 37.7
20.3 22.9
65.9 3.4
2,392 Primary
37.4 24.6
24.0 66.7
3.1 1,253
Secondary 38.9
30.0 30.8
69.0 7.4
2,013 More than secondary
40.7 47.5
47.3 70.4
13.0 630
Wealth quintile
Lowest 37.7
23.8 22.8
67.9 4.8
878 Second
29.3 26.5
25.6 66.8
3.1 1,121
Middle 33.3
23.7 20.8
69.7 2.4
1,166 Fourth
37.9 23.8
24.4 68.9
4.9 1,521
Highest 49.0
34.4 41.6
64.8 10.6
1,601 Total
38.3 27.0
28.1 67.5
5.5 6,287
Note: Figures in parentheses are based on 25-49 unweighted cases. An asterisk indicates that a figure is based on fewer than 25 unweighted cases and has been suppressed.
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Estimates for Zabul are not presented separately due to sample coverage issues; however, they are included in the total national estimates.