Introduction: Despite of improvement in knowledge, diagnostics, prevention and treatment; HIV/AIDS is highly discriminated and stigmatized worldwide. Objective: To determine the association of various socio-demographic characteristics with knowledge and attitudes towards HIV/AIDS transmission among married women. Study Design and Setting: For this purpose, secondary analysis was done using data from Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2014. Materials and Methods: Study design was cross-sectional. Only ever married women were included as participants of the study. Result: Significant associations were found between sociodemographic factors i.e., women age (p-value = 0.001), women education (p-value = 0.001), wealth index (p-value = 0.001), access to media (p-value = 0.001), type of place of residence (p-value = 0.01), marital status (p-value<0.05) with knowledge and attitudes of women towards HIV/AIDS. Conclusion: Despite of having high odds of appropriate knowledge of HIV/AIDS transmission; attitudes of Pakistani women towards HIV/AIDS transmission were still negative. Programs need to be designed in order to reverse the negative attitudes of community towards HIV/AIDS transmission.
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