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Awareness and Attitudes About HIV Among Pregnant Women in Aksu, Northwest China
The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has a firmly established HIV epidemic among its intravenous drug user (IDU) population. Local sex workers were also found to be positive in 1998. A descriptive, cross-sectional survey of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and attitudes among consecutively selected pregnan...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627515/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19274068 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874613600802010072 |
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description | The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has a firmly established HIV epidemic among its intravenous drug user (IDU) population. Local sex workers were also found to be positive in 1998. A descriptive, cross-sectional survey of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and attitudes among consecutively selected pregnant women was conducted November 2005 in Aksu Prefecture, north-western China, with a population on 2 million with about 25 000 pregnancies per year. A total of 291 pregnant women participated. We found a limited knowledge on mother-to child transmission with several misconceptions. The AIDS campaigns have been successful in making all the women aware of HIV as a sexually transmitted disease. However, the common belief that social contact causes transmission gives a high risk that patients are stigmatized. Obviously, it is important to design HIV information strategies that target pregnant women in north-western China. |
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spelling | pubmed-26275152009-03-09 Awareness and Attitudes About HIV Among Pregnant Women in Aksu, Northwest China Maimaiti, Rena Andersson, Rune Open AIDS J Article The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has a firmly established HIV epidemic among its intravenous drug user (IDU) population. Local sex workers were also found to be positive in 1998. A descriptive, cross-sectional survey of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and attitudes among consecutively selected pregnant women was conducted November 2005 in Aksu Prefecture, north-western China, with a population on 2 million with about 25 000 pregnancies per year. A total of 291 pregnant women participated. We found a limited knowledge on mother-to child transmission with several misconceptions. The AIDS campaigns have been successful in making all the women aware of HIV as a sexually transmitted disease. However, the common belief that social contact causes transmission gives a high risk that patients are stigmatized. Obviously, it is important to design HIV information strategies that target pregnant women in north-western China. Bentham Open 2008-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC2627515/ /pubmed/19274068 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874613600802010072 Text en © Maimaiti and Andersson; Licensee Bentham Open. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Article Maimaiti, Rena Andersson, Rune Awareness and Attitudes About HIV Among Pregnant Women in Aksu, Northwest China |
title | Awareness and Attitudes About HIV Among Pregnant Women in Aksu, Northwest China |
title_full | Awareness and Attitudes About HIV Among Pregnant Women in Aksu, Northwest China |
title_fullStr | Awareness and Attitudes About HIV Among Pregnant Women in Aksu, Northwest China |
title_full_unstemmed | Awareness and Attitudes About HIV Among Pregnant Women in Aksu, Northwest China |
title_short | Awareness and Attitudes About HIV Among Pregnant Women in Aksu, Northwest China |
title_sort | awareness and attitudes about hiv among pregnant women in aksu, northwest china |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627515/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19274068 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874613600802010072 |
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