ArticleAIDS research and therapy2026
Awareness, knowledge, and accepting attitudes toward people living with HIV in Egypt: a secondary analysis of a nationally representative sample.
Article in AIDS research and therapy, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundAlthough human immunodeificency virus (HIV) prevalence in Egypt remains low, the number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) has increased in recent years, highlighting the need for nationally representative evidence on HIV awareness, knowledge, and accepting attitudes toward this poulation.
methodsWe conducted a secondary analysis of the 2015 Egypt Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) to assess HIV awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and their sociodemographic and media-related correlates. Data from 16,671 respondents aged 15-59 years were analyzed. Analyses were weighted for national representativeness. We first conducted descriptive analyses, followed by univariable logistic regression to estimate crude associations and multivariable logistic regression to identify independent determinants of HIV awareness, good HIV knowledge, and accepting attitudes toward PLHIV.
resultsOverall, 74.3% of respondents had heard (were aware) of HIV. Among those aware, 45.4% had good HIV knowledge, while only 14.2% expressed accepting attitudes toward PLHIV. Education, age, knowledge, attitudes, and wealth were among the strongest correlates: higher education was independently associated with greater odds of both HIV awareness and good HIV knowledge, and adolescents aged 15-19 years had lower odds of good HIV knowledge than older respondents. Good HIV knowledge was independently associated with accepting attitudes. Unexpectedly, respondents in the middle, richer, and richest wealth quintiles had lower odds of expressing accepting attitudes than those in the poorest quintile.
conclusionAlthough HIV awareness was relatively high in Egypt, substantial knowledge gaps and low levels of accepting attitudes persist. Targeted education and stigma-reduction interventions, particularly among younger populations, are needed to close these gaps and support Egypt's progress toward the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 95-95-95 targets.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.