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Article Dans Une Revue AIDS. Official journal of the international AIDS Society Année : 2000

Religion and Protective Behaviours towards AIDS in Rural Senegal

Emmanuel Lagarde
Catherine Enel
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Karim Seck
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Aïssatou Gueye-Ndiaye
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Jean-Pierre Piau
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Gilles Pison
Valérie Delaunay
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Ibrahima Ndoye
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Souleymane Mboup
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Résumé

Objectives - To describe the association between religion and factors related to sexually transmitted diseases (STD)/AIDS in a country where religious leaders were involved early in prevention. Design - A cross-sectional study conducted in a rural area in central Senegal. Methods - Questionnaire-based interviews of a random sample of 858 adults from the general population aged 15–59 years and in-depth interviews of four religious leaders and 50 people. Results - Seventy-six per cent of the respondents were Muslim, 24% Catholic, 1% Animist and 0.2% Protestant. A total of 86% of men and 87% of women reported religion to be very important to them. Important prevention-related variables were inversely associated with the importance of religion. Men who considered religion to be very important were less likely to cite AIDS as a major health problem [odds ratio (OR) 0.4, P = 0.008] and were less likely to feel at risk of getting HIV (OR 0.5, P = 0.0005). Women who considered religion to be very important were less likely to report an intention to change to protect themselves from AIDS (OR 0.2, P = 0.0001), less likely to report having discussed AIDS with others (OR 0.4, P = 0.01) and much more likely to feel at risk of getting HIV (OR 9.3, P = 10−4). Individuals who considered religion to be very important were not more likely to report intending to or actually having become faithful to protect themselves from AIDS. Conclusion - These findings stress the need to intensify the involvement of religious authorities in HIV/STD prevention at the local level.
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Emmanuel Lagarde, Catherine Enel, Karim Seck, Aïssatou Gueye-Ndiaye, Jean-Pierre Piau, et al.. Religion and Protective Behaviours towards AIDS in Rural Senegal. AIDS. Official journal of the international AIDS Society, 2000, 14 (13), pp.2027-2033. ⟨hal-03988884⟩
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