Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
J Biosoc Sci. 2010 Jul;42(4):531-47. doi: 10.1017/S0021932010000027. Epub 2010 Mar 9.
Although a growing body of research has linked religious involvement with HIV/AIDS protective behaviour in Africa, the focus has mainly been on women. Given the patriarchal nature of African culture, this paper argues for the inclusion of men, a critical group whose sexual behaviours have increasingly been linked to the spread and sustenance of the virus in the region. Drawing on different theoretical discourses and using data from the 2003 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, this paper examines how religious affiliation influences men's risky sexual behaviours. While the results from the bivariate analysis suggested that Muslims and Traditionalists were significantly less likely to engage in risky sexual behaviour compared with Christians, those differences disappeared once socioeconomic variables were controlled, rendering support for the selectivity thesis. This finding could benefit programmatic and policy formulation regarding AIDS prevention in Ghana.
尽管越来越多的研究将宗教参与与非洲的 HIV/AIDS 保护行为联系起来,但重点主要集中在女性身上。鉴于非洲文化的父权性质,本文主张将男性纳入其中,男性是一个关键群体,他们的性行为越来越多地与该地区病毒的传播和持续存在有关。本文借鉴了不同的理论论述,并利用 2003 年加纳人口与健康调查的数据,考察了宗教信仰如何影响男性的危险性行为。虽然二元分析的结果表明,与基督徒相比,穆斯林和传统主义者进行危险性行为的可能性显著降低,但一旦控制了社会经济变量,这些差异就消失了,从而支持了选择性假说。这一发现可能有助于制定加纳预防艾滋病的方案和政策。