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SEXUAL PRACTICE, PREVENTIVE TOOLS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF PLHA IN PALAKKAD DISTRICT, KERALA STATE
Public health is increasingly becoming a multi-sector and multilevel responsibility, and there is a need for a comprehensive community and spatial planning to integrate health considerations and develop a sustainable public health policy. In the present situation a large number of people living with...
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International Journal of Research in Economics & Social Sciences
2014
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/006228.pdf |
| Summary: | Public health is increasingly becoming a multi-sector and multilevel responsibility, and there
is a need for a comprehensive community and spatial planning to integrate health
considerations and develop a sustainable public health policy. In the present situation a large
number of people living with HIV/AIDS in Palakkad, so a suitable multivariate analysis is
required to simplify the dimensional relationship among the variables and to identify the
major determinant factors, spatial disparity of the People living with HIV/AIDS infection.
The present study aims to analyze the spatial distribution people living with HIV/AIDS and
their relationship between social ,cultural, psychological and health condition .Which are
altogether considered as the very important aspects for the development and planning for the
study area. Nearly 12.31 % of the total variance is significantly loaded with 22 variables .The
factor loading positive values of 11 variables lies between (0.93 to 0.45)eigen values in both
the directions. MLHA Partner prevent condom usage with sexual intercourse (0.93), MLHA
got Moral support from NGO (0.76),HIV /AIDS transferred to Mother to Child (0.62),
FLHA separated from family (0.59),MLHA Married (0.59), High school level of education
(0.59) MLHA suffered fever(0.56) MLHA reveal test to partner(0.56) FLHA got HIV/AIDS
through Sexual contact (0.48) MLHA suffered TB (0.45) FLHA in the age group of 30-39
(0.45) .The 11 variables with negative loadings are added with Partner prevents condom
usage (-0.94) MLHA protect HIV themselves-0.93, MLHA receiving nutritious food-0.82,
MLHA got
HIV
through Drug Abuse-0.68, FLHA isolated-0.61, FLHA have anal
intercourse-0.55, MLHA have the age group of 30-39(-0.49), FLHA got HIV from Mother to
Child transmission-0.48, No of Beds in the hospitals-0.45 MLHA collect the sex knowledge
from Friends-0.45 MLHA living as single-0.44. Hence it is premised that PLHA and their
sexual knowledge and awareness is the major route of the HIV/AIDS infection in Palakkad
district in Kerala. |
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| Physical Description: | Volume 4, Issue 10 (October 2014) |