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Abstract
A Study To Find Out The Awareness About HIV-AIDS In Adolescent Schoool Boys And Gurks Of Bhavnagar City
Trivedi A.1, Verma P.1, Singh M.P.1
Introduction: In India since the first case was reported in 1986, HIV has spread rapidly from urban to rural areas and from high-risk groups to the general population. Currently HIV prevalence is estimated at around 0.8% of the adult population in India. Due to lack of knowledge about HIV-AIDS people have fear in their mind against the victims of this disease. Because of fear of social boycott, AIDS patients and their relatives hide their HIV status. Many doctors (due to fear of getting infection) also refuse to treat these patients. There is danger of AIDS for everybody and only thing that can save us is to be completely informed. This study was aimed to know the awareness in adolescent school children of Bhavnagar city about HIV-AIDS
Methods: A Cross Sectional Study with the help of Presdesigned, pretested Proforma distributed among the 296 adolescent boys and girls of a urban school of Bhavnagar city. Data was entered and analysed by the statistical package EPI-INFO-6.
Results: More then 92% of students were aware about HIV-AIDS disease, 83% were aware about sexual route and 56 % were aware about the major routes of transmission and 26% aware about major preventive measures, but there were some mis conception about routes of transmission, prevention, behavior and treatment.
Conclusions: Study suggest that there was good awareness about HIV-AIDS as a disease and sexual route of transmission but awareness about all major routes and preventive measures are still lacking. There are certain misconceptions about routes of transmission, prevention, behaviour and treatment.
The 3rd IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment
Abstract no.
MoPe11.10C04
Suggested Citation
"TrivediA., et al.
A Study To Find Out The Awareness About HIV-AIDS In Adolescent Schoool Boys And Gurks Of Bhavnagar City.
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Abstract no.
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