Sex trafficking contributes to the cycle of violence against women, and inflicts global social and health consequences, particularly in this era of HIV/AIDS pandemic. This paper is based on a cross-sectional survey conducted in two urban and two rural schools located in Delta and Edo states of Nigeria. The aim is to assess in-school students' knowledge and awareness of, and attitude toward sex ...

statement of the problem as hiv/aids transmits through direct contact and via blood (possibly also saliva), the risk of cross-infection in a dental practice has become important. dentists play an important role in detecting and treating oral manifestations of hiv. purpose the aim of this study was to evaluate knowledge and attitudes among general dentists working in tehran towards hiv/aids. mat...

background hiv/aids is an infectious disease and the fourth cause of death in the world and.iran and other middle east countries are suffering from it.medical staff, particularly nurses are at risk for bloodborne pathogens especially human immunodeficiency virus.we aimed to investigate educational needs of nurses about hiv/ aids. material and methods in this cross-sectional study, 196 nurses of...

BACKGROUND The success of HIV care strongly depends upon skills of the healthcare worker. Vietnam has a punitive history towards HIV and even though this has changed recently, persons living with HIV are still facing discrimination. The objective of this paper is to assess the gaps in knowledge of HIV and factors associated with discriminatory attitudes towards persons living with HIV among med...

This study assesses knowledge and attitudes concerning HIV infection and individuals with AIDS among 383 female students attending colleges in Nagasaki, Japan. A structured questionnaire containing questions concerning knowledge about AIDS, sources of information, beliefs and attitudes toward people with HIV/AIDS was administered during sessions set up for that purpose. The mean age of particip...

Epilepsy is not a regular topic in many countries' schools. Thus many people harbor misconceptions about people suffering from this disease. It was our aim to a) examine what grade ten students know and believe about epilepsy, and b) to develop and test a teaching unit to improve their knowledge and attitude. The test group comprised eight grade ten classes from six different Austrian high scho...