HIV/AIDS Nursing and AIDS awareness
HIV can be diffused through blood transfusion while 97 per cent of them knew that it could transfer through unsterilized needles and syringes. Mutual misconceptions among the defendants about HIV/AIDS were HIV transmission through hugging, sharing toilet seats, towels, tackles, shaking hands and even mosquito-bites. Out of the total 95 nursing students who perceived that by altering behaviour one could avoid getting AIDS, 60 per cent of them measured it important to be faithful to one’s life partner. 70 per cent of them knew that blood transfusion related infection can be reduced by getting screened blood. More than 60 per cent of the students discoursed that TV is the best mode to instruct awareness to the communal followed by posters, radio etc.