Abstract
HIV/AIDS remains one of the world’s most significant public health challenges, particularly in low and middle-income region. China has witnessed a moderate effect of global HIV/AIDS endemic for which HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention program have been developed and conducted. In China the university students are among the affected target population because of the recent development of casual attitude towards sex, the rapid economic revolution and degradation of traditional value. The purpose of this paper is to describe HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes, and practice and identify personal risk behaviors among students in China. Selection of the articles suitable for the review was done from 2007 to 2016 on the basis of their study regarding HIV/AIDS in accordance with different students of schools, undergraduate and postgraduate study. Knowledge of the students is accordance with their education level while attitude have no relation with the knowledge and still there is unsafe sexual practice present among students. Although students have good knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS, they have still negative attitude towards HIV/AIDS patients. There are still misconceptions especially concerning mosquitos and kissing as routes of transmission of HIV. There is difficulty in separating HIV from AIDS by many students. Due to insufficient knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS among school students many of them believe that there is a medicine that can cure HIV/AIDS. Comparatively Students are more focused on knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS rather than developing and maintaining safe sexual behavior among the students. We believe that the review will help to focus further into the more effective attitude based implementation of knowledge and practice among Chinese students.
Highlights
Human immune virus infects cells of the immune system which result in the progressive deterioration of the immune system, breaking down the body’s ability to fend off some infections and other diseases [1]
More than 80% knew that Human immune Virus (HIV)/AIDS could be transmitted via sharing syringe/needles as well as vertical transmission from mother to child and about 65% - 75% thought condom could prevent HIV transmission during sexual intercourse. 59.5% thought one can get HIV through mosquito bite, and 38.5% thought HIV/AIDS is homosexual people disease. 84.3% of the respondents thought their friends will avoid them if they were found to be HIV positive. 54% felt persons with HIV/AIDS deserve it. 30% felt that HIV infected students should be treated differently. 15.8% of all respondents had risk behavior related to HIV/AIDS transmission. 10% reported having unprotected sex, 6% had more than 1 sexual partner and 4.5% reported having sex under the influence of alcohol
All studies in this review have reported significant positive intervention effects in HIV-related knowledge, attitude and practice among Chinese students
Summary
Human immune virus infects cells of the immune system which result in the progressive deterioration of the immune system, breaking down the body’s ability to fend off some infections and other diseases [1]. The first case of Human immune Virus (HIV) was recognized in United States in 1981 [4]. The statisticians from joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and WHO estimated that there are approximately 36.7 million people living with HIV at the end of 2016. People newly infected with HIV in 2016 are 1.8 million of which 1.7 million are adults. Total AIDS death in 2016 was 1.0 million of which 890,000 were adults [6]. Due to non-achievement of millennium goals on HIV/AIDS in different countries in the world especially in developing countries, the joint UN program on HIV/AIDS has fixed new objectives to overcome HIV infections by 2030 [7] [8]
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