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AIDS knowledge and attitudes towards homosexuals of black first-year university students: 1990-1992
L J Nicholas1, C Tredoux, P Daniels
1Centre for Student Counseling, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
Abstract:
Using an anonymous structured questionnaire to obtain baseline data on knowledge and attitudes of first-year black university students about the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and their attitudes towards homosexuals during 1990, 1991, and 1992 (ns = 1902, 2113, and 1558), the following information was obtained. Students' knowledge of AIDS was inadequate and misconceptions about AIDS transmission prevalent as were prejudiced and exclusionary beliefs about people with AIDS. Little difference was evident on any of the scales over the three-year period.
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