title: Knowledge About HIV/AIDS Among Secondary School Students.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  HIV/AIDS has emerged as the single most formidable challenge to public health. School children of today are exposed to the risk of HIV/AIDS.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The study was conducted to determine the knowledge among secondary school students regarding HIV/AIDS and provide suggestions for HIV/AIDS education in schools.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study was conducted among students of tenth to twelfth standard in the intermediate schools of Lucknow, India, from July to October 2011. A total of 215 students, both boys and girls, were enrolled in the study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In this study, for majority of the students (85%), the source of information about HIV/AIDS was the television. Regarding knowledge about modes of transmission of HIV/AIDS among girl students, 95.1% of them told that it is through unprotected sex. A total of 75.8% students said that it was transmitted from mother to child.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It was observed that the knowledge of the school students was quite satisfactory for most of the variables like modes of transmission, including mother-to-child transmission of the disease. However, schools should come forward to design awareness campaigns for the benefit of the students.
authors: Department of Community Medicine, Era's Lucknow Medical College, Lucknow, India.
authors: Pratibha
authors: P
authors: Gupta
authors: Fatima
authors: F
authors: Anjum
authors: Pankaj
authors: P
authors: Bhardwaj
authors: Jp
authors: J
authors: Srivastav
authors: Zeashan Haider
authors: ZH
authors: Zaidi
keywords: AIDS; HIV; Knowledge; Students
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