title: Knowledge about HIV and behavioral risks of foreign-born Boston public school students.
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.
authors.affiliation: Boston University School of Public Health and Medicine, MA 02118.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Hingson
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Strunin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grady
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Strunk
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Carr
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Berlin
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Craven
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001900:Boston / Q000453:epidemiology; D003625:Data Collection; D004522:Educational Status; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D015497:HIV-1; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D044469:Racial Groups; D012307:Risk Factors; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires