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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008
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GHA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Heard of drugs to help HIV infected people live longer (M_AIDHRDRUGHELPMN)

Data file: GHA2008-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 639
End: 639
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
712. Have you heard about special antiretroviral drugs (USE LOCAL NAME) that people infected with the AIDS virus can get from a doctor or a nurse to help them live longer?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
AIDHRDRUGHELPMN (MV837) indicates whether the man has heard of medicine to help people with HIV/AIDS. How such drugs were labeled and how their effects were described varies across samples. See Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General HIV/AIDS knowledge Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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