Quickie Link [1]: Survey Finds Shocking Ignorance of HIV in UK [2]

By : vanrozenheim on Jul 04, 2007 - 11:00 PM
Medicine [3]
(London, UK) - People are still alarmingly ignorant about HIV, finds a survey published today by Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) to mark the 25th anniversary of Terry Higgins’ death with what was then Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (now Aids) in St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, in 1982. Knowledge about HIV is not only poor among young people. Across all age groups 28% of people either thought that condoms had holes in which let HIV through or said they didn’t know, 12% thought that sharing cutlery carried a risk of HIV transmission and 10% thought you can be infected through sweat.

Note: Read full article on UK Gay News [4]
Links
  [1] https://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=5&lead=1
  [2] https://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1490&lead=1
  [3] https://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=&topic=6&lead=1
  [4] http://ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/07/July/0401.htm