International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1998; 12: 654 (abstract no. 33309).
ISSUE: Concerted efforts towards AIDS Conscientization go on. Women are very vulnerable to the AIDS virus. The number of young literate women who engage in high risk life style is on the increase. Respondents' HIV/AIDS awareness was assessed and appropriate intervention strategies advanced. PROJECT: Randomly selected 726 female respondents from the five co-educational tertiary institutions in Jos City were studied. By categorising, ordering and summerizing the data collated on their feelings, perceptions, awareness and attitudinal disposition towards AIDS apt intervention strategies that promote AIDS related behavioural changes through counselling services were identified for implementation. RESULT: There is a significant relationship between the mean degree of knowledge as a unit (25.71%) and their assessment of the degree of danger posed by the AIDS scourge (23.36%). The variables studied were found to have a significant association with the respondents life-style and willingness for a healthier handling of their sexuality. Only 23.36% of them judged HIV/AIDS as constituting some great threat to the school community. 99.6% had heard about AIDS. Knowledge of the symptomatology and the physiopathology of AIDS was very limited (43.29%). Awareness of modes of contamination (86.44%) and what constitutes high risk behaviours (95.59%) was satisfactory. CONCLUSION: Prevention through education, information and communication remain the key to eradicating the AIDS pandemic. Since the majority of the respondents (90.89%) were unmarried young adults and 82% engaged in high risk behaviours, the behavioural changes envisaged need. Some kind of mental restructuring and the formation of healthy sex habits. Their willingness to get more AIDS education, and to change (73.97%) shows that AIDS Risk Reduction Model (ARRM) as a counseling strategy is apt for this sample group.
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Keywords:
- AIDS Vaccines
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Adult
- Awareness
- Cities
- Counseling
- Data Collection
- Female
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Health Education
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Humans
- Knowledge
- Nigeria
- Sexual Behavior
- Students
- Teaching
- psychology
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UI: 102230175
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