A Study of Knowledge and Practice of Hiv/Aids Among 10+2 Level Students on danabari, Ilam District
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The Study based on "knowledge and practice of HIV/AIDS among 10+2 level
students on Danabari, VDC, Ilam." This study is mainly based on the primary data
collected from Kankai Higher Secondary School on class 11 and 12 of Ilam District in
2011, which includes 120 adolescent students taken for a sample size by adopting
simple random sampling method.
The higher proportion of respondents is 17 years of age 87 percent respondents are
unmarried, 44 percent respondents parents are engaged in agricultural based
occupation more than 70 percent respondents are Hindu, the family size of the
respondents 64.16 percent have between (5-10) members. Only 33.35 percent of the
respondents fathers have primary level education. Almost all respondents have heard
about HIV/AIDS. 83 percent respondents have the main sources of information is
radio and 55 percent respondents said that unprotected sex is the main route of
transmission of HIV/AIDS. 68 percent respondents said that not having sex with
multiple can prevent transmission of HIV/AIDS. 67 percent respondents a person
having HIV/AIDS would certainly die and 81.66 percent respondents is possible to
have HIV/AIDS virus in a healthy looking person. 75 percent respondents gave
positive resonance to HIV/AIDS infected people Almost 88 percent respondents
HIV/AIDS is a burning social problems.
It includes that most of the 95 percent respondents having necessary knowledge of
HIV/AIDS for people and 93 percent respondents realize that they have importance of
giving sex education to their children. 71 percent respondents said that it is not
curable disease. 42 percent respondents said that they have used condom during
sexual contact and 45 percent respondents to have to stop pregnancy for use condom.
36 percent respondents said that they suggest that sex without condom.