Monday, March 12, 2012
MPRC Seminar Series: Polygyny, Partnership Concurrency and HIV Transmission in Sub Saharan Africa
Description:
Speaker: Georges Reniers, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
About the talk: We study the relationship between polygyny and HIV infection using nationally representative survey data with linked serostatus information from twenty African countries. Our results indicate that junior wives in polygynous unions are more likely to be HIV positive than spouses of monogamous men, but also that HIV prevalence is lower in populations with more polygyny. With these results in mind, we investigate four explanations for the contrasting individual and ecological-level associations. We relate these results to the debate about partnership concurrency as a primary behavioral driver behind the fast propagation of HIV in some part of sub-Saharan Africa.
{Will appear in FYI on Mar 9, 2012
Start Time:
12:00 PM
End Time:
1:00 PM
Room:
0124B
Venue:
Cole Student Activities Building
Common Location Name:
Other
Web Address:
www.popcenter.umd.edu/new_e/event_1329402044196
Other Contact Information:
Tiffany L Pittman
MPRC
301 405 6403
tpittman@umd.edu
