Worldwide, almost 37 million people are living with human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV). In 2015, about 2.1 million new HIV infections were recorded. Women have
always been at high risk of HIV infection since the start of epidemic due to factors like,
gender inequality, low access to health care services and education. In Nepal, wives of
Nepalese labor migrants working in India are one of the high-risk groups. The aim of
this cross-sectional and descriptive study was to examine the role of gender in decision
making in use of condoms among migrant spouses in Nepal and other subsidiary factors
affecting it. The study is descriptive and exploratory in nature.
The study was carried out in the Marku Village Development Committee (VDC),
among labor migrants and their spouses, who had resided in India for a period of 3
months to 10 years. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted among 136 participants
of which 69 (50.7%) were female and 67 (49.2%) were male. The researcher and health
workers interviewed participants using a structured questionnaire. Chi-square test was
used to examine the difference between categorical variables, and analysis of variance
(ANOVA) was used to test the differences between the mean of more than two groups.