A survey of allied health students' knowledge of HIV and AIDS

1. The best and only preventative treatment for AIDS is quality, in-depth education. 2. Increasing the knowledge of adolescents and young adults is not easy despite enormous media exposure; many engage in high-risk behaviors, believing themselves to be invulnerable to infection. 3. Although respondents reported that they were knowledgeable about HIV infection, the findings suggest that the participants did not have as solid a knowledge of the disease as expected.