HIV and Unintended Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: Multilevel Predictors of Mistimed and Unwanted Fertility Among HIV-Positive Women

Monica A. Magadi ()
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Monica A. Magadi: University of Hull

Population Research and Policy Review, 2021, vol. 40, issue 5, No 5, 987-1024

Abstract: Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a disproportionate burden of both unintended fertility and HIV infection, but the relationship between these two reproductive health risks is not well understood. This paper investigates the association between HIV status and unintended (mistimed and unwanted) fertility and examines multilevel predictors and national variations of unintended fertility among HIV-positive women across countries in SSA. Multilevel multinomial logistic regression models are applied to Demographic and Health Surveys data collected during 2006–2014 from 25 countries of SSA. Overall findings reveal that across countries of SSA, pregnancies of HIV-positive women are, on average, less likely to be mistimed (RR = 0.90, p

Keywords: Unintended fertility; HIV-positive women; Multilevel multinomial logistic regression; Sub-Saharan Africa; Contextual predictors; National variations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s11113-020-09620-9

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