Knowledge about HIV and behavioral risks of foreign-born Boston public school students.
- 1 December 1991
- journal article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 81 (12) , 1638-1641
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.81.12.1638
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.Keywords
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