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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. [Vanessa] is a single girl who had one boyfriend. But she stopped having sex with her boyfriend because he said he didn't want to marry her and refused to use a condom.

  2. [Angela] is unmarried, and she moves around with many men because she cannot say "no" to any man who proposes to have sex with her. Usually these men don't like to use condoms, because they say it's like eating sweets in the wrapper.

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

  4. [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.

  5. [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.

  6. [Mary] tried to get her husband to stop visiting bar girls, but he refused. She said she was afraid that if they caught AIDS, they would die and their children would become orphans and suffer. He agreed with her concern and said that a clever man uses condoms with bargirls.