A study of awareness on HIV/AIDS among higher secondary school students in Central Kolkata
| Autor: | Sukanta Chatterjee, Saswati Nandy, Ramendra Narayan Chaudhuri, Rabindranath Roy, Arindam Chakrovarty, Bhaswati Sengupta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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education.field_of_study
Sexual exposure Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Transmission (medicine) Population Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Developing country medicine.disease medicine.disease_cause Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) medicine business education Large group Young male Demography |
| Zdroj: | Indian Journal of Community Medicine. 32:228 |
| ISSN: | 0970-0218 |
| Popis: | Adolescents comprise about 22% of the population of India. This large group of population contains high potentiality for social and economic development of the country in future. It is alarming that in India rates for new HIV infections every year among young males and females are 0.46% and 0.96% respectively. There is paucity of data in Kolkatta regarding awareness on HIV/AIDS among adolescents which are required to plan an Information Education and Communication (IEC) program for them. The study was undertaken among school students (classes XI and XII) to assess the level of knowledge on the existence mode of transmission and prevention of AIDS and also to elicit the history of sexual exposure. (excerpt) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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