Knowledge and Awareness on Hiv/Aids of Senior High School Students Towards an Enhanced Reproductive Health Education Program

Abstract

The study determined the levels of knowledge and awareness on HIV/AIDS of 369 senior high school students of Los Banos Laguna, Philippines, towards an Enhanced Reproductive Health Education Program using an adopted and modified questionnaire from the research study of Marc Lester Quintana in 2018. The results were: high level of knowledge on HIV/AIDS in terms of transmission, prevention and protection; high level of awareness about the effects of HIV/AIDS in terms of physical, psychological, socio-economic and spiritual; there is a significant relationship between the levels of knowledge and awareness about the effects of HIV/AIDS. It was recommended that: senior high school students to become more

Effective Prevention of High-Risk Cervical Cancer Among Women in Developing Countries: A Case-Study in Nigeria

“…Previous epidemiological research has also revealed that having sex with a male-partner who have had multiple sex partner over a lifetime can put the woman at risk of developing CC because the man is known to be the etiological carrier of HPV . Apart from being infected by HPV as a result of multiple sex partners, there are other kinds of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) that are transmitted during sexual intercourse (Jesus & Martinez, 2019); these STIs (such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Herpes-Simplex Virus type 2 (HSV-2), chlamydia trachomatis, ureaplasma, trichomoniasis, cytomegalovirus (CMV), syphilis, granuloma inguinale, Neisseria gonorrhea, mycoplasma genitalicum, and Hepatitis B and C) are a cofactor of HPV infection and increases the risk of the formation of CC (Cooper et al, 2007). However, HSV-2 has the highest risk factor among all other STIs (Kim et al, 2016).…”