Awoke Seyoum Tegegne*, Melaku Tadege and Emebet Abich
Background: Human immune deficiency virus is a virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome by reducing a person’s ability to fight infection. In the whole world, approximately 37.6 million people were infected by the human immune deficiency virus. Therefore, the main objective of the current investigation was to assess knowledge/awareness and associated factors of HIV/AIDS among Awi zone high and preparatory school students.
Method: About 2049 respondents were considered as respondents/participants. In this investigation, a cross-sectional study design was conducted to assess the knowledge of students about the different ways of transmission of HIV/AIDS from HIV positive to negative people. Chisquare tests of association and binary logistic regression analysis were applied to test the association and to identify the factors related to the cause of having insufficient knowledge about HIV/AIDS. SPSS version 23 software was implemented.
Results: From all students, 78.9% of all had adequate knowledge. Among students who have ever sex, only 12.9% of students were used a condom whereas 87.1% of students were not used a condom during sexual intercourse. More surprisingly, only 14.7% of the entire students knew their HIV AIDS result.
Conclusion: The knowledge of students on ways of transmission of HIV/AIDS was good but the practice was poor. Advanced strategies to prevent HIV/AIDS are highly recommended. A health related education should be conducted to students on using the AIDS club; especially awareness should be created on use of condom during sexual intercourse.
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