Predictors for HIV Risk Score Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa

A 2026 household survey of 5,025 adolescent girls and young women aged 15–24 years across 24 sub-districts in South Africa, collected by Kate Bergh. The dataset includes HIV test results from dried blood spots and self-reported data on alcohol use and sexual behaviors.

Use Cases

• Modeling associations between hazardous drinking and sexual violence based on reported odds ratios.
• Analyzing links between alcohol use and condomless sex among young women.
• Studying the relationship between alcohol use and HIV infection risk in a high-burden population.
• Exploring qualitative themes on transactional sex and risk negotiation from interview transcripts.

Strengths

• Includes HIV test results from 5,025 participants.
• Contains both quantitative survey data and qualitative interview data from 68 participants.
• Reports specific odds ratios for associations between hazardous drinking and sexual risk behaviors.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the main dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the selected intervention and comparison sub-districts in South Africa.

Provenance

Source

Kate Bergh via figshare.

Collection Method

Data drawn from a mixed methods impact evaluation of a combination HIV prevention programme, including a household survey and in-depth interviews.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 17:24:39; freshness should be verified.

Geography

High HIV-burdened communities across eight provinces in South Africa.