This study aims to assess the impact of poverty on women's awareness of some infectious diseases and their correct ways of transmission. To achieve the goals of this study, a comparison between monetary and non-monetary poverty measures is investigated first to select one of these measures that better suits the available data. Then the impact of poverty and other related variables on women's knowledge of such diseases is estimated. The EDHS 2005 data is used to achieve the objectives of the study. Additionally, HIECS 2005 is used to estimate a relationship between the household expenditure and some socioeconomic characteristics, to be applied on the EDHS data. Accordingly, the household expenditure for EDHS data will be estimated to be used as monetary (expenditure-based) poverty indicator.
The comparison between the two approaches of poverty measures shows that both of them have significant relationships with women's characteristics as well as their awareness of infectious diseases. However the asset poverty, which measures the wellbeing, has a stronger relation than expenditure-based poverty. Additionally, there is a positive significant strong relationship between the two approaches of poverty. As a result, the study relies only on the asset poverty to assess the impact of poverty and other related variables on women's awareness of infectious.