Ismail Salwa M, Kari Fatimah, Kamarulzaman Adeeba
1 Federal Ministry of Health, Sudan National AIDS Control Program, Khartoum, Sudan.
2 Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
J Int Assoc Provid AIDS Care. 2017 Sep/Oct;16(5):446-454. doi: 10.1177/2325957415622449. Epub 2015 Dec 28.
To determine the socioeconomic impacts among HIV-infected persons in Sudan and examine whether there are significant variations in coping strategies between infected men and women, a primary survey was conducted among infected persons (n = 555). Discriminant function was used to analyze the data. We found significant variation in the coping strategies (<.001). HIV/AIDS impacts were more critical for women. Infected people have 3 alternatives in coping with the changes in their income and expenditure, that is, borrow, utilize savings, or sell assets. Policy makers should consider economic information in planning health care to mitigate the impacts and remove the gender gap.
为了确定苏丹艾滋病毒感染者的社会经济影响，并研究感染男性和女性在应对策略上是否存在显著差异，我们对555名感染者进行了一次初步调查。使用判别函数对数据进行分析。我们发现应对策略存在显著差异（<.001）。艾滋病毒/艾滋病对女性的影响更为严重。感染者在应对收入和支出变化时有三种选择，即借款、动用储蓄或出售资产。政策制定者在规划医疗保健时应考虑经济信息，以减轻影响并消除性别差距。
