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- Title
AWARNESS AND BELIEFS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS IN NAGPUR : AIDS FACTOR.
- Authors
Nagdeo, Neena V.; Thakar, Y. S.; Thombare, V. R.
- Abstract
To assess the awareness, attitudes and beliefs of the students towards HIV/AIDS an observational study was carried out in college students in Nagpur city ( Central India).They were asked to fill up the pre designed questioner. The knowledge regarding etiology, modes of transmission and prevention was assessed. Total 452 students participated from different colleges. Most of the students were aware of AIDS as a disease since it is included in school syllabus. But only 66.81% could give the full form of AIDS and 44.69% knew full form of HIV. Still it was encouraging to observe that 84.95 % students knew that causative agent is a virus. 87.61 % stated that HIV could be Transmitted from mother to baby . Still today 18.14% persons think that just by looking at someone we can tell whether he has HIV infection or not. Majority were aware that ( 86.72%) till today there is no effective cure for AIDS . Information, education and communication are the major step in HIV prevention. Result of this study clearly stress the need for health education and AIDS awareness programmes for population in general and high risk groups in particular.
- Subjects
NAGPUR (India); INDIA; AIDS prevention; HIV infection transmission; COLLEGE students; ETIOLOGY of diseases; AWARENESS; SCIENTIFIC observation
- Publication
Journal of Recent Advances in Applied Sciences, 2010, Vol 25, Issue 1/2, p45
- ISSN
0970-1990
- Publication type
Article