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HIV Self-Protection

Anchoring Vignettes for HIV Self-Protection

Questions:

  1. How easy or difficult is it to protect [name of person/yourself] from getting infected with HIV/AIDS?
Response categories:
  1. Very Easy
  2. Easy
  3. Difficult
  4. Very Difficult

Vignettes:

  1. [Matthew] is concerned about HIV/AIDS, and would like to use a condom with his wife, but his wife refuses to use them because she believes that they can cause TB. He knows that they are safe but still cannot convince his wife to use them.

  2. [Peter] is unmarried, and knows that it is risky to have sex with bar girls, but he can’t control (nature, his desires) so he sometimes goes to bar girls, and he does not use condoms.

  3. [Rose] is married to a man who moved around with a girlfriend for many years while they were married. When she found out, she told him to stop seeing the girlfriend or she would divorce him. He stopped.

  4. [Christopher] is married, but has extramarital partners. He does not use a condom with his wife, but does use them with his extramarital partners.

  5. [Edward] has three wives, and spends most of his time with his third wife, who is much younger than him. Since he does not spend as much time with his first wife, he suspects that she may have a boyfriend.

  6. [Beatrice] caught her husband “red-handed” having sex with a bargirl. She took her case to the tribal chief and said she wanted a divorce because she was afraid of getting HIV/AIDS. The chief said the reason was genuine and that she didn’t have to pay any money for a divorce. [Beatrice] insisted on getting a divorce and returned to her parents’ home to live with her family.