Tchaika NA; International Conference on AIDS (15th : 2004 : Bangkok, Thailand).
Int Conf AIDS. 2004 Jul 11-16; 15: abstract no. D11333.
Pasteur Institute , Saint-Petersburg , Russian Federation
Background: After many years of HIV spread the level of AIDS knowledge in different population groups of Russian society was very low and sexual behaviour in many adolescents and young adults was quite risky. Methods: Several types of anonymous questionnaires were used for knowledge, attitude and behaviour studies in young people, military personnel, health care workers (HCW) and other population groups; studies were performed in St. Petersburg and other cities of north-western region in 1990-2002. Results: When very low level of HIV/AIDS knowledge was found (12-85% of wrong answers) several special prevention programs were realised to raise AIDS awareness in general public: a) documentary "AIDS - Disease of XX Century"; b) 12 exhibitions at City Health Centre; c) 7 brochures "What you should know on AIDS" and "AIDS in questions and answers"; d) 5 manuals including AIDS Hotline; e) two special magazines; f) 25 folders, leaflets, stickers and pins. For students of military universities and soldiers 2 sets of brochures and posters were produced. To increase the professional level of HCW having poor knowledge of AIDS over 30 modules were published for Medical Academy for Postgraduate Studies, two sets of slides were produced for students of medical universities and recommendations on HIV prevention for nurses were developed. Two newsletters were published regularly since 1998: "Global HIV/AIDS News" - 29 issues and "News on Infectious Diseases"- 17 issues. Over 20 special leaflets and posters were produced for promotion of safer sex and regular condom use. Recent follow-up studies demonstrated much better AIDS knowledge and less risky sexual behaviour especially in young people. Conclusions: Results of preliminary sociological studies were extremely useful for better planning of HIV preventive activity in different population groups including teenagers, adolescents, young adults, general public, military personnel and health care workers.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Behavior
- Biomedical Research
- Counseling
- Follow-Up Studies
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Health Personnel
- Humans
- Knowledge
- Safe Sex
- Sexual Behavior
- Students
- organization & administration
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UI: 102277976
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