Information Level, Risk Perception And HIV/AIDS Socio-Cultural Aspects Relation In Young People Of Itabuna, Northeast, Brazil.

Abstract

The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome is chronic and progressive diseases where the lack of knowledge and prevention increases the infection rate and contribute to young people death. The educational campaigns are pointed as the best alternatives of prevention. We aimed to explore essential points to approach in future HIV/AIDS preventive campaigns . We used the evaluation of a questionnaire completed by 450 individuals included in the research. It was concluded that the television was the main source of information about HIV/AIDS. The participants showed a good knowledge about general aspects related to HIV/AIDS, but they did not think thems3elves to be vulnerable to the virus. So this fact is very important to be mentioned in future campaigns in order to make it more efficient and to achieve all the proposed objectives.