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Married women in India whose husbands physically and sexually abuse them ar about four-spot times more likely to contract HIV compared with married women in the country world Health Organization do not experience abuse, according to a cogitation published latterly in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Reuters UK reports. Researchers, led by Jay Silverman of the Harvard School of Public Health, examined data from India's National Family Health Survey betwixt 2005 and 2006. The data included information about 28,139 married women.
More than one-third of the women in the study reported experiencing forcible violence with or without sexual abuse by their husbands. Of these women, 28% experienced only physical violence, while 7.7% reported both physical and sexual clapperclaw. The peril of HIV among the women wHO experienced both physical and sexual force increased by a magnitude of 3.9 compared with women who did not experience abuse, according to the study.
The researchers aforesaid that they confirmed earlier studies indicating that workforce who have extramarital relationships, including unprotected sex with commercial sex workers, are the principal source of HIV among women in India. More than 95% of HIV-positive Indian women report being monogamous, the researchers aforesaid, adding that extramarital relationships on the part of their husbands help explain why many women wHO experience pervert are catching the virus. "A woman who is abused by her hubby is truly placed in a situation of 'double jeopardy' regarding HIV infection," Silverman aforesaid, adding that a husband's "sexual behaviour outside of the spousal relationship makes it more potential he is infected with the virus, and his abusive behaviour inside the marriage leaves her with little over control gender or intimate protection" (Reuters UK, 8/12).
An abstract of the study is available online.
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