Investigation and analysis of informed situation of young students' knowledge about AIDS and related behaviors in Huizhou city.

Objective To understand the efficiency of health education on AIDS prevention and existing problems and provides the evidence of improving educational strategies in future.Methods All objects were investigated by questionnaires including demographic information, AIDS knowledge, sexual behavior, drug abuse and injection drug abuse.Results According to the survey on informed rate of young students' knowledge about AIDS and related behaviors, seven risk factors around the transmission of apparently healthy people, correct condom use in every sexual behavior, the transfusion of commercial blood containing HIV, sharing syringes,mosquito bite, vertical transmission and sexual experience were investigated, and the informed rates were respectively 89.8%, 75.4%, 97.0%, 93.9%, 40.3%, 91.1% and 6.8%.The way to get AIDS knowledge was very simple, chiefly from TV, broadcast, newspaper and magazines.Conclusion The survey shows that young students have not an all-around understanding about risk factors of AIDS, and fail to learn about the indirect ways of transmission.Therefore the health education should be strengthened to improve young students' comprehensive knowledge to AIDS.