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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"AIDS prevention"”.
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HIV/AIDS Prevention: Educating Future Generations
… more educational interventions on HIV/AIDS would lead to lower incidents of HIV/AIDS among youth. A quantitative research design was used to determine the level of knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes of high school students in regard to HIV/AIDS. The targeted population were youth …
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MASS MEDIA AND AIDS PREVENTION AMONG CHINESE COLLEGE STUDENTS
… students' knowledge and attitudes toward HIV/AIDS. The study also sought to determine whether the Risk Perception Attitude (RPA) framework could be expanded to a new demographic, the Chinese college students. An online survey (N = 162) was distributed to college students in China. Based on …
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How Latinas Come to Know about AIDS and AIDS Prevention
… States. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is occurring at a disproportionately high rate among Latinos. As care-giver and health decision-maker in the family, the Latina needs to know about AIDS and AIDS prevention. This research identified and offers an explanation of how the Latina …
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The utility of process evaluation : understanding HIV/AIDS prevention programmes
Many evaluations of HIV/AIDS intervention programmes continue to focus on impact and thus overlook the processes through which any given outcomes have been achieved; this has prompted a call for a more consistent focus on what happens during interventions. Therefore, this study endeavours to …
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A multimodal analysis of selected National Lovelife HIV/AIDS prevention campaign texts
… in visual texts and images used during HIV-prevention campaigns in South Africa. The aim is to evaluate and analyse the effect of multimodal texts used in HIV/AIDS campaigns on the understanding and interpretation by the target group, and thus gauge their effectiveness. Using a text-based …
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Fertility, sexuality and HIV/Aids prevention campaigns in Mafalala barrio, Maputo, Mozambique
… of fertility and sexuality in relation to HIV/Aids prevention in Mafalala barrio, Maputo, Mozambique. The work explores ways in which people create or re-create meanings for fertility in order to fulfil kinship expectations. The notion of individual choice highlighted in the condom campaigns is …
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The impact of a pro-male circumcision (MC) approach towards an HIV/AIDS prevention strategy in Botswana
… male circumcision (MC) as part of a broader HIV prevention strategy will impact on Botswana's HIV/AIDS epidemic. Although is [sic] been more then two decades since Botswana's first case of HIV was diagnosed, HIV/AIDS is still the country's major development challenge. The government has played a …
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Process and outcome evaluation of a school-based HIV/AIDS prevention intervention in Cape Town high schools
… presents an evaluation of a theory-based HIV prevention intervention designed for grade 8 high school students. The intervention was delivered by teachers over a 6-month period. The objectives of the research were (i) to conduct a systematic review of evaluation studies of international and …
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An investigation into AIDS prevention in the workplace : guidelines to a social marketing workplace preventative AIDS strategy
… of social marketing principles and techniques to AIDS prevention in the workplace. The overall research objective of this dissertation is to investigate the provisions which have been made for AIDS in companies in South Africa, and to gain an understanding of the "preventative AIDS provisions" …
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Young Men's Perception of Male Circumcision at the University of Zambia in Lusaka: Implications for HIV/AIDS Prevention
… effectiveness as a complimentary method of HIV/AIDS prevention. It was an exploratory study that used both qualitative and quantitative methods for data collection and analysis. The population of the study was students at UNZA main campus. Data was collected using semistructured questionnaires …
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The response of the Christian churches to HIV/AIDS prevention - a developmental challenge: The example of Hout Bay
… however, they do not deal with the causes. HIV/AIDS is spread in the midst of ubiquitous poverty and deepens poverty by depriving poor families of income and redirecting scarce resources to care for the sick. HIV/AIDS prevention is thus an important development agenda. Development, understood as …
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The roles of religious organizations in HIV/Aids prevention among youth at Nquthu in Kwa Zulu-Natal, South Africa.
… (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a crisis of massive social, economic, spiritual as well as political magnitudes. It is a menace to vital human development as well as to the mission of religious organisation. Based on the reports by UNAIDS, in the year 2018, there were …
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Application of the Asset Mapping Model to Church Based HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control in Aba, Abia State, Nigeria
<p>This study examined whether HIV/AIDS activities were more frequent among churches with needs and assets for HIV/AIDS prevention and control in Aba, Nigeria and whether this connection was mediated by collective efficacy. A cross-sectional design was used to obtain data in two phases. First, a …
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards HIV and AIDS prevention measures among male learners in secondary schools in Oshana region, Namibia
… are more prevalent among males than females (UNAIDS, 2013c), putting them at the risk of acquiring Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Not much is known about the knowledge, attitude and practices of male learners in secondary schools in Namibia on HIV prevention and their practices thereof. The …
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AIDS related knowledge, and sexual practices among two groups of adolescents of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A contribution to HIV/AIDS prevention programs
… of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and HIV in Brazil and sociodemographic characteristics of the adolescent population of Rio de Janeiro are reviewed. Strategies to prevent AIDS/HIV infection are examined in reference to their appropriateness in the cultural context. Findings …
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Factors Facilitating and Hindering Safer Sex Negotiations Among Female Sex Workers in Pune, India: Conversations With Women in Sex Work
Despite the central role that HIV/AIDS prevention education plays in this community, this study brings forth the ecological factors influencing FSW safer sex negotiations in this geographical context. Understanding these issues is necessary to make HIV/AIDS prevention programs successful.
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Content analysis of developmental assets in HIV/AIDS message framing
… framework could be used to conceptualise HIV/AIDS message framing. LoveLife media messages (as gain-framed HIV/AIDS prevention messages) were purposefully sampled. Qualitative content analysis allowed loveLife media messages to be analysed through coding, categorisation and memoing. The …
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