Early research studies in Africa that found higher education was associated with a greater risk of HIV have often been dismissed as errors or anomalies, especially once later research suggested the opposite pattern. But a recently published analysis in Social Science & Medicine suggests those early findings weren’t wrong, but reflected a real change in the education-HIV relationship over time.
The researchers, Dr Ismael G. Muñoz and Professor David P. Baker, analysing data from over 300,000 people across eight African countries, show that for those born between 1960 and 1984, education was indeed associated with higher likelihood of having HIV, with this association peaking among people born in 1965 to 1969. But from the mid-1980s onward, this flipped: education became increasingly protective, and the protective effect strengthened with each younger generation.
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Source : aidsmap
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