Benoit FI, Xavier G, Xavier J, Alexander D; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 2002 Jul 7-12; 14: abstract no. ThPeG8383.
Loyola College, Chennai, India
BACKGROUND: Out of the many vulnerable people in the world the refugees are the worst hit. Against bombs, firing and famine a refugee leaves home to seek asylum elsewhere, hoping that the new place would bring a better living. Today with newer ilness and pandemics we find that lives are even tougher for them. Knowledge on the HIV/AIDs issues may seem like a luxury to them leave alone the care and protection for the positive people METHODOLOGY: Two refugee camps from Tamil Nadu were chosen by the lottery method and 108 respondents chosen by quota sampling. Out of the 108 43% were men and 57% were women. The hypothesis of the study is that the refugees are most likely to have very less information on HIV/AIDS. With this the interview schedule was administered to the refugees RESULTS: some of the major findings of the study was that although there was a little information about the spreading of the disease there wasnot much known about how toprotect themselves and there wer e alot of misconceptions, HIV/AIDS with its high societal discrimination was still considered a taboo to talkabout. CONCLUSION: The refugees need to be better informed to handle situatuions like HIV/AIDS. In the interest of the refugees more awareness programmes must go into the rehabilitation plan for the refugees. Information not given to the refugees on HIV/AIDS is nothing but human rights violation
Publication Types:
Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Biomedical Research
- Demography
- Ethnic Groups
- Female
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Humans
- Male
- Refugees
- Residence Characteristics
- methods
- therapy
Other ID:
UI: 102256477
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