Survey of the knowledge, attitude, belief, practice of AIDS in superintendents and prisoners in Binh Dien prison
- Author:
Tran Thi Ngoc
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
HIV/AIDS
- MeSH:
Knowledge;
attitude;
Culture;
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome;
Prisoners;
Prisons
- From:Journal of Preventive Medicine
2004;14(1):77-82
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
A cross-sectional study was performed on 536 people on July 2003. The percentage of HIV knowledge of both groups was 95%, information receiving source was mainly from television (92-97%). Besides, there were some other information receiving sources (newspaper, radio, friends); this rate was high in superintendents and was low in prisoners. The exact knowledge rate about 3 mainly infected routes was 90% in both groups, 85% thinking that need encouraging and consoling infected people, 73-89% believing that using condom from the start could prevent HIV infection and using condom could prevent HIV infection about 95%, 10-13% of people in both groups did not understand about preventing HIV infection by intravenous drugs
