Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey 2011 HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviour

HIV Knowledge HIV-related Attitudes HIV-related Behaviour & HIV Testing HIV and Youth

Knowledge of HIV Prevention Methods Percent who know HIV can be prevented by:

Knowledge of Mother to Child Transmission (MTCT) of HIV & AIDS Percent of women and men age who say that:

Trends in HIV Knowledge Percent of women and men age who know that HIV can be prevented by using condoms and limiting sex to one uninfected partner Percent of women and men age who know that HIV can be transmitted by breastfeeding and that the risk of MTCT can be reduced by mother taking drugs during pregnancy

HIV Knowledge HIV-related Attitudes HIV-related Behaviour & HIV Testing HIV and Youth

Beliefs About HIV & AIDS Percent of women and men age who say that: *Comprehensive knowledge means knowing that the risk of getting HIV can be reduced by using condoms and limiting sex to one uninfected partner, knowing that a healthy looking person can have HIV, and rejecting the two most common local misconceptions about HIV prevention and transmission.

Accepting Attitudes Towards Those Living With HIV Among women and men age who have heard of HIV/AIDS, percentage expressing specific attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS

Trends in Attitudes about HIV Percent of women and men age who have comprehensive knowledge Percent of women and men age who expressing accepting attitudes on all 4 indicators of tolerance toward people living with HIV/AIDS

HIV Knowledge HIV-related Attitudes HIV-related Behaviour & HIV Testing HIV and Youth

Trends in Lifetime Sexual Partners Among women and men age who have ever had sexual intercourse, mean number of lifetime sexual partners

66% of women and 82% of men know where to get an HIV test.

Trends in HIV Testing Percent of women and men age who were tested in the last 12 months and received the results

HIV Testing during Antenatal Care 20% of pregnant women were tested for HIV and received the results during antenatal care.

HIV Knowledge HIV-related Attitudes HIV-related Behaviour & HIV Testing HIV and Youth

95% of never-married young women age have not had sexual intercourse, compared to 87% of never-married young men age

Age at First Sex Among women and men age 15-24, percent who had sex before age 15

HIV Testing and Youth 25% of young women and 28% of young men who had sexual intercourse in the past 12 months also had an HIV test and received the results in the past 12 months

Summary 43% of women and 64% of men know that the risk of getting HIV can be reduced by using condoms and limiting sex to one uninfected partner. 42% of women and 47% of men know that HIV can be transmitted by breastfeeding and the risk of MTCT can be reduced by the mother taking drugs during the pregnancy. 17% of women and 28% of men express accepting attitudes on all 4 indicators of tolerance toward people living with HIV/AIDS. 20% of women and 21% men have been tested for HIV and received the results in the last 12 months. 11% of young women and 1% of young men had sex before the age of 15.