1992
DOI: 10.1177/146642409211200202
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Conception of AIDS and its Prevention Among Students in a Nigerian University

Abstract: This study examines AIDS awareness, knowledge of transmission and prevention among students, who not only belong to the sexually active age bracket, but who are the future leaders of the nation. The student population was stratified into those in the health and non-health disciplines and an accidental sampling technique was used to obtain the respondents from the 2 strata. 60 students were interviewed from each stratum. A majority of the medical students, 58.3% as against 48.3% of the non-medical students, per… Show more

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“…Lack of understanding of AIDS as a disease and negative attitudes toward persons with AIDS have frequently been reported (Asindi et al, 1992;Bertrand et al, 1991b;Govender et al, 1992;Lindan et al, 1991;Ndeki et al, 1994;Yelibi et al, 1993). Disbelief in the effectiveness of condoms has been found among the general population (Asindi et al, 1992;Caprara et al, 1993;Govender et al, 1992;Lule & Gruer, 1991;Odebiyi, 1992;Wilson et al, 1991;Yelibi et al, 1993) and even among health care workers in Kenya (Rogstad et al, 1993).…”
Section: Background Aids Knowledge In Africamentioning
confidence: 92%
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“…Lack of understanding of AIDS as a disease and negative attitudes toward persons with AIDS have frequently been reported (Asindi et al, 1992;Bertrand et al, 1991b;Govender et al, 1992;Lindan et al, 1991;Ndeki et al, 1994;Yelibi et al, 1993). Disbelief in the effectiveness of condoms has been found among the general population (Asindi et al, 1992;Caprara et al, 1993;Govender et al, 1992;Lule & Gruer, 1991;Odebiyi, 1992;Wilson et al, 1991;Yelibi et al, 1993) and even among health care workers in Kenya (Rogstad et al, 1993).…”
Section: Background Aids Knowledge In Africamentioning
confidence: 92%
“…The mass media, particularly radio stations, have been identified as primary information sources about AIDS in BurkinaFaso, Ghana, Nigeria, Zaire, and Zimbabwe (Asindi et al, 1992;Bertrand et al, 1991bBertrand et al, , 1992Caprara et al, 1993;Ndlovu & Sihlangu, 1992;Neequaya et al, 1991;Sicard et al, 1992). AIDS awareness and knowledge surveys have been conducted among the general population in Ghana (Neequaye et al, 1991), the Ivory Coast Yelibi et al, 1993), Uganda (Konde- Lule et al, 1993), Zaire (Bertrand et al, 1991a(Bertrand et al, , 1991b(Bertrand et al, , 1992, and Zimbabwe (Moyo et al, 1993;Wilson et al, 1991); among women only in Kenya (Garland et al, 1993), South Africa (Govender et al, 1992), Rwanda (Lindan et al, 1991), Uganda (McGrath et al, 1993), and Zaire (Bertrand et al, 1992); among students in Kenya (Sindiga & Lukhando, 1993), Nigeria (Asindi et al, 1992;Odebiyi, 1992), Tanzania (Ndeki et al, 1994), Uganda (Lule & Gruer, 1991), and Zimbabwe (Ndlovu & Sihlangu, 1992;Wilson et al, 1991); among health care workers in Nairobi and Kenya (Rogstad et al, 1993); and among long-distance truck drivers in Kenya (Bwayo et al, 1991). All surveys have found high levels of knowledge, especially about the basic fact that AIDS is spread by heterosexual contact.…”
Section: Background Aids Knowledge In Africamentioning
confidence: 95%
“…In terms of marital status, more males were identified as divorced/separated or widowed. The educational profile in this study was identical to that of the general population in Zambia [17,21,27]. Most patients had attended primary level of education, with more male patients in the majority.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 63%
“…In homes where care is given, a patient may experience feelings intense loneliness and abandonment. A study among the Nigerian medical students [21] revealed that the majority of the students considered AID a divine punishment for sexual excess. In order to try and improve community participation, organisations such as WHO have developed strategies to enhance TB/HIV/AIDS control [22].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Organ transplant example kidney transplant. Odeniyi (1992), Osuala (2000) and Wayne (1993) pointed out that, the use of infected razor blades, needles and tooth brushes are ways of contacting the disease HIV.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%