AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and practices in Haiti
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AIDS constitutes an important public health problem in Haiti, where it appears to be spread mainly through heterosexual encounters. The study reported here employed in depth interviews, focus group discussions, and a national cross-sectional survey of 1 300 men and 1 300 women 15 to 49 years old to assess AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and practices in Haiti. According to criteria established for the study, 38.1 percent of the 1 118 sexually active male survey respondents were found to engage in high-risk behavior. In general, the women were found to have better knowledge of AIDS than the men. Significant obstacles to condom use included the inability of women to choose whether condoms would be used and a belief that condom lubricant could cause health problems. The study also found a tendency to ostracize people with AIDS, especially in areas outside Port-au-Prince, and a belief that AIDS was imposed on people by fate- which could partially explain the tendency to persist in high-risk behavior This article will also be published in Spanish in the Bol. Oficina Sanit. Panam. Vol. 116, 1994
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