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HIV & AIDS
Prem Misir
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Description for HIV & AIDS
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JFFH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
This cross-sectional study used a purposive sample of 379 high school students from fifteen urban and rural high schools in Guyana and assessed their HIV and AIDS knowledge and stigma-related attitudes, and the relationships among gender, age, religion, and race/ethnicity and HIV and AIDS knowledge. Most of the high school students displayed an overall moderate level of HIV and AIDS knowledge. The students understood the modes of HIV transmission; they recognized the symptoms of HIV and AIDS; nearly half of them believed that a blood donor was at risk of contracting HIV; and about one-fifth of the students embraced myths ... Read more
This cross-sectional study used a purposive sample of 379 high school students from fifteen urban and rural high schools in Guyana and assessed their HIV and AIDS knowledge and stigma-related attitudes, and the relationships among gender, age, religion, and race/ethnicity and HIV and AIDS knowledge. Most of the high school students displayed an overall moderate level of HIV and AIDS knowledge. The students understood the modes of HIV transmission; they recognized the symptoms of HIV and AIDS; nearly half of them believed that a blood donor was at risk of contracting HIV; and about one-fifth of the students embraced myths ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of the West Indies Press Jamaica
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Kingston, Jamaica
ISBN
9789766403171
SKU
V9789766403171
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Ref
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About Prem Misir
Prem Misir is Pro-Chancellor, University of Guyana. His many publications include Cultural Identity and Creolization in National Unity: The Multiethnic Caribbean and Leader Behavior and the Compliance Structure in Education: A Sociological Study of Ideology and Social Change in Guyana.
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