Sammendrag
This thesis examines the possible association between various socioeconomic factors and an individual woman´s knowledge about HIV/AIDS in 21 African countries. OLS models are constructed using data taken from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to estimate the effects of both individual and average community-level measures of education and wealth for HIV knowledge. Additional models are also estimated to compare whether the impacts observed for HIV knowledge may differ across individuals with different levels of previous education and for individuals who live in countries with different country-specific HIV prevalence levels.