Abstract:
This study was aimed to evaluate student’s knowledge, awareness and attitude about HIV/
AIDS. It was a survey based study where 380 students studying in class Eight- Twelve
from different areas of Dhaka, Munshigonj and Brahmanbaria were interviewed with a
structured questionnaire. Majority of the respondent were female. From the study about
100% respondents heard about HIV/AIDS. In this study, 88.16% of the respondent knew
that HIV/AIDS can transmit through sharing infected needle or injection. They have
knowledge about blood transfusion (77.1%), unprotected sex (75%) is responsible to have
this disease. But they had misconception about something like eating or drinking from same
glass or plate (38.42%), mosquito bite (31.84%), wearing same dress (35.26%) can be mode
of transmission of HIV/AIDS. Among 80.26% respondent told that avoiding needle share,
condom use (46.84%), remaining faithful to single partner (46.84%) can be mode of
prevention for AIDS. From the study 43.17% participants mentioned that they would like
to take care patient in home or community, 39.47% showed positive attitude to the thing
that they would like to continue relation with the patient. From the study it can be concluded
that it is important to increase the knowledge, awareness level of AIDS so that misconception don’t occur among the people.
Description:
This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
