PMID- 12974561
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20031008
LR  - 20190906
IS  - 0393-2990 (Print)
IS  - 0393-2990 (Linking)
VI  - 18
IP  - 8
DP  - 2003
TI  - Knowledge, attitudes, belief and practice related to HIV/AIDS among young people 
      in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
PG  - 835-6
AB  - The HIV infection rate has shown a rapid increase among the young people in 
      Vietnam. In order to inform an HIV education prevention program, we have 
      conducted a knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices (KABP) survey among 902 
      young vietnamese people in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) in 1999. Results show that 
      overall knowledge about HIV, sexually transmitted diseases and safe sex is good. 
      A minority of them (11%) declare having sexual activity. Eighty percent of those 
      sexually active use condoms. This rather optimistic picture needs to be confirmed 
      by qualitative measures of sexual behavior among the youth of HCMC. Gender 
      specific interventions should be developed since there appear to be significant 
      differences of knowledge, beliefs and practices between males and females. Other 
      groups of young people should be investigated in order to have a better picture 
      of the Vietnamese context at a time of expansion of the Aids epidemic.
FAU - Vinh, D T N
AU  - Vinh DT
FAU - Raguin, G L
AU  - Raguin GL
FAU - Thebaud, Y
AU  - Thebaud Y
FAU - Semaille, C
AU  - Semaille C
FAU - Tri, L D
AU  - Tri LD
LA  - eng
PT  - Letter
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Eur J Epidemiol
JT  - European journal of epidemiology
JID - 8508062
SB  - IM
MH  - Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/psychology
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Condoms
MH  - Female
MH  - HIV Infections/*psychology
MH  - *Health Behavior
MH  - *Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Sexual Behavior
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Vietnam
EDAT- 2003/09/17 05:00
MHDA- 2003/10/09 05:00
CRDT- 2003/09/17 05:00
PHST- 2003/09/17 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2003/10/09 05:00 [medline]
PHST- 2003/09/17 05:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1023/a:1025346015455 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eur J Epidemiol. 2003;18(8):835-6. doi: 10.1023/a:1025346015455.