Knowledge about HIV and behavioral risks of foreign-born Boston public school students.
cross_sectional · Level IV
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Abstract
In 1990, 3049 Boston public middle and high school students were surveyed anonymously in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, French, or Haitian Creole. Significantly fewer immigrant students, 35% of those surveyed, knew the principal modes of human immunodeficiency virus transmission. Fewer immigrants reported having sexual intercourse (31% vs 53% of nonimmigrants), but among the sexually active only 38% always used condoms, and more immigrants reported intercourse with intravenous drug users (4% vs 1% of non-immigrants). AIDS education should be taught to immigrant students in their native languages.
Medical subject headings
- Educational Status
- Emigration and Immigration
- HIV Infections
- HIV-1
- Health Behavior
- Health Education
- Students