Factors associated with failure to negotiate for safe sex among cohabiting and married women in Uganda
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to determine what variables prevent Ugandan cohabiting and
married women from negotiating for safe sex. The study also looked at how socioeconomic,
behavioral, and demographic characteristics affected safe sex bargaining. It took a lot of
hypotheses to get results that were relevant to certain objectives.
Data was collected, sorted appropriately, and then analyzed at two levels: uni-variate for data
collected of study variables; bi-variate for demonstrating the relationship between cohabiting and
married women negotiating for safe sex and the independent variable.
The results of the study showed that inability to negotiate for safe sex among cohabiting and
married women was related to age, wealth index, education level, religion, alcohol intake, and
respondents having ever forced into undesired sexual actions.
Wealth index, education level, employment status, and whether the respondent has ever been
coerced into having unwelcome sex were shown to be the main predictors of married and
cohabiting women's inability to bargain for safe sex.
As a result, the researcher advises women to openly discuss safe sex with their partners.