Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice towards hiv/aids prevention among secondary school students in Morogoro urban and peri-urban
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2007
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
The study was conducted to assess knowledge, attitudes and practice toward HIV/A1DS
prevention among secondary school students in Morogoro Urban and Peri-Urban.
Specially, the study was specifically aimed al determining whether the awareness and
knowledge on the HIV/AIDS prevention have any influence in the attitude and risk
behaviours that lead to transmission of HIV/AIDS: examining the relationship between the
socio-economic and socio-cultural activities which lead to early engagement into sexual
activities by the youth: determining factors which influence girls and boys to risk of
HIV/AIDS infection and identifying appropriate education and information required
among the youth in secondary schools so as to reduce the HIV/AIDS transmission. This
study has been prompted by the fact that today's young people are the AIDS generation.
They have never known a world without HIV. Millions already have died. Yet the
HIV/AIDS pandemic among the youth remains largely invisible to adults and to young
people themselves, this would have a wide range of negative impacts affecting
demography. A cross-sectional survey using structured questionnaire was used in data
collection. A total of 210 respondents were interviewed. In general, some students believe
that they are invulnerable though most of them (73.8%) admitted to have had sexual
intercourse without condoms in the first time they had it. Their responses were good but
they have a problem in putting into practice what they know, such findings reflect the
distorted sense of invulnerability to HIV/AIDS that many young people have. The present
study could contribute to devising and implementing the planning of prevention strategies
that focus on the youth. It shows that, only a combination of approaches can succeed in its
reduction. There should be a collaboration amongst secondary schools, health
organization, and educational specialists and health care providers.
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HIV/ AIDS prevention-secondary school students, Knowledge towards HIV/AIDS prevention, Attitude towards HIV/AIDS prevention, Morogoro urban