title: Knowledge About Spread of HIV Infection Among Dentists Employed in Private and State Practice.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Lack of knowledge of how an infection is spread and how to control the infection in dental medicine indicates that there is possibility of more spreading and that dental medicine requires more education about this problem.
  
  
  METHODS
  Research conducted in period of May and July as a study of random selection from 271 workers in dental medicine from Canton Sarajevo: 147 dentists employed in public health care and 124 employed in private sector.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results show that dentists employed in private sector have more knowledge about HIV infection spread than those employed in public sector of dental medicine(t=-2,82, p=0,005). Research have shown that dentists who have less then 10 years of experience know more about HIV spread than dentist with more work experience (F=6,377, p=0,000).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We think that is essential to work on expending knowledge on blood transmitted pathogens with all medical workers and especially those that are most exposed like dentists.
authors.affiliation: Institute for public health of FB&H, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Seila
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cilovic-Lagarija
authors.affiliation: Institute for public health of FB&H, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Sanjin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Musa
authors.affiliation: University of Health Studies in Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Suada
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brankovic
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics, School of Dental Medicine University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Mediha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Selimovic-Dragas
keywords: HIV infection; dentists; knowledge about HIV