Table 2 Knowledge about HIV prevention and treatment among drug users
From: HIV knowledge and risk behaviors among drug users in three Vietnamese mountainous provinces
Characteristics | n | % |
|---|---|---|
Heard about HIV/AIDS | ||
 No | 3 | 1.0 |
 Yes | 297 | 99.0 |
HIV/AIDS transmission | ||
 Blood Transfusion Unsafety | 203 | 67.9 |
 Sharing needles and syringes | 249 | 83.3 |
 Transmissible from mother to child | 143 | 47.8 |
 Unprotected sex | 261 | 87.3 |
Susceptibility to HIV infection | ||
 People who inject drugs | 283 | 94.7 |
 Sex workers | 229 | 76.9 |
 Long distance highway drivers | 18 | 6.0 |
 Multiple sex partners | 89 | 29.9 |
Faithfulness to partners: a means to prevent HIV infection | ||
 False | 36 | 12.2 |
 True | 260 | 87.8 |
The correct use of the condom reduces the risk of HIV infection | ||
 False | 10 | 3.3 |
 True | 289 | 96.7 |
A healthy or healthy-looking person can be HIV-positive | ||
 False | 69 | 23.2 |
 True | 229 | 76.9 |
Mosquitoes/insect can transmit HIV | ||
 False | 40 | 13.4 |
 True | 258 | 86.6 |
HIV infection is transmitted through eating with a person with HIV-infected | ||
 False | 25 | 8.4 |
 True | 273 | 91.6 |
Knowledge about HIV/AIDS | ||
 Not good | 117 | 39.7 |
 Good | 178 | 60.3 |