South Africa HIV/AIDS Behavioral Risks, Sero-Status, and Mass Media Impact Survey 2002
General Info
Original or alternative title
SABSSM 2002
Coverage type
Country
Time period covered
May, 2002 - September, 2002
Series or system
Data type
Survey:
Cross-sectional - Household - Individual - Interview
Summary
The 2002 South Africa HIV/AIDS Behavioral Risks, Sero-Status, and Mass Media Impact Survey (SABSSM) is the first in a series of national population-based surveys conducted for surveillance of the HIV epidemic in South Africa. The series was designed to investigate the overall HIV prevalence and incidence as well as HIV-related behaviour and health. It enables the measurement of trends and changes in the epidemic over time, and presentation of essential data for national indicator reporting.
Keywords
Absenteeism, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Anogenital herpes, BCG vaccines, Breathing difficulty, Bullying, Childhood sexual violence, Circumcision, Cocaine use disorders, Community action, Community health clinics, Condoms, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diarrhea, Domestic migration, Drug use disorders, Education, Education access, Employment, Family composition, Family size, Female circumcision, Fertility, Fever, HIV and AIDS, HPV, Headache, Health care access, Health care personnel, Health care use, Health education, Health literacy, Health promotion, Height, Hospitals, Illicit drug use, Internet, Intimate partner violence, Languages, Manufacturing, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Measles vaccines, Mining, Needle sharing, Nonprofits, Occupations, Opioid use disorders, Pain, Parental survival, Pharmacies, Polio vaccines, Poverty, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, School enrollment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual violence, Teachers, Traditional healers, Transportation, Tuberculosis, VCT, Vaccination cards, Weight, Weight change
Citation
Primary investigator
Olive Shisana
Contributors
Funders
Publisher
Publication year
2011
Suggested citation
Center for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) (South Africa), Department of Social Development (South Africa), Family Health International, Geospace International (South Africa), Human Sciences Research Council, Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Medical University of Southern Africa (MEDUNSA), National Agency for AIDS Research (ANRS) (France), National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) (South Africa), South African Medical Research Council, University of Natal, Wits Health Consortium. South Africa HIV/AIDS Behavioral Risks, Sero-Status, and Mass Media Impact Survey 2002. Pretoria, South Africa: Human Sciences Research Council, 2011.