title: [HIV prevention and adolescents: a sample survey on Italian high school students].
abstract: This article resulted from a survey carried out by some researchers of the Telefono Verde AIDS (TVA-National AIDS Help-Line) of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, with the collaboration of some colleagues of the Segreteria per le Attività Culturali. It is also a summary of strategies of intervention against HIV/AIDS for young people implemented by the Italian Ministry of Health. The study was developed within the context of the workshops on HIV/AIDS education carried out since 1995 by some researchers of TVA. These workshops fall within some other initiatives arranged by the Segreteria per le Attività Culturali for the diffusion of scientific and technological information. Our study aimed at assessing the level of knowledge on HIV/AIDS among some different high-school students. Data processing points out a widespread and quite good level of knowledge on HIV/AIDS in general and particularly on ways of transmission and prevention measures. Results obtained could not be generalized because the sample involved in the survey represented a privileged target, already sensitive to the issues concerning HIV infection and AIDS dealt with in the context of specific teaching programmes.
authors.affiliation: Telefono Verde AIDS, Laboratorio di Epidemiologia e Biostatistica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma.
authors.forename: Rudi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Valli
authors.forename: Anna Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Luzi
authors.forename: Mara
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bianconi
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Camoni
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Colucci
authors.forename: Annarosa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Frati
authors.forename: Pietro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gallo
authors.forename: Enrica
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rosa
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: D'Agostini
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D013334:Students