Evaluation Of Effectiveness On AIDS Health Education About Peasant Workers As Well As The Rural Basic Cadres In Two Counties Of AnHui Province

Objective To evaluate the short-term of AIDS peer education among peasant workers, and explore the prevention and controlling of AIDS.Method 408 participants were enrolled from Suixi County, Anhui Province, and investigated and compared in terms of the effect before and after the AIDS peer education.Results The peasant workers gained the knowledge of AIDS mainly from the sources including video, TV, propagandistic pictures, newspaper, and magazine. The awareness rate of AIDS/HIV knowledge was significantly different before and after peer education (66.3% vs78.3%,u=23.15,P<0.001). Except for HIV transmitability from the pregnant women to the fetuses, other right answers to AIDS/HIV knowledge were significant. Except for the attitude of sharing labor tools, and when their children' classmates are infected with HIV, whether exchanging school is necessary, the other attitudes that prejudice against the people living with AIDS or HIV decreased significantly.The proportion of the participants' refusing premarital sexual behavior was 23.8% and 30.4% pre-and-post intervention, respectively.Conclusions The AIDS peer education applies to the peasant workers from rural areas, and the short-term effect is significant. Objective To understand the effect of AIDS/HIV health education intervention among the rural basic cadres in AIDS epidemic rural areas, and provide the available strategy to preventing and controlling the AIDS.Method The AIDS/HIV health education intervention was conducted among the rural basic cadres, 147 participations were enrolled respectively from 2 villages in AIDS epidemic rural area of AnHui province, LangXi and suixi County. The acknowledge, attitude and the practice difference before and after the intervention was analyzed. Results The radio or TV, periodicals, picture poster were the main resources of AIDS/HIV acknowledge to the participations. The awareness rate of AIDS/HIV knowledge before and after the intervention were 73.5% and 89.1%, (χ2=67.22,p<0.001 ) .After the AIDS/HIV health education intervention, there was 89.8% participations have sympathy with the AIDS/HIV, the proportion of the participants being fearful of the AIDS/HIV was decreased from 48.3% to 33.3%(χ2=7.2,p<0.001), and considered themselves were in the risk of infecting AIDS was decrease from 89.8% to 22.4%(χ2=143.17,p<0.001). The proportion participation agreed to announce the name list of AIDS patients and HIV infected persons in order to dodge them was decreased from 23.1% to 17.0% (χ2=111.84,p<0.001), and willing to go shopping from AIDS patients and HIV infected persons was increased from 30.6% to 57.87% (χ2=23.33,p<0.001).Conclusions It was necessary to give the rural basic cadres full play to prevention and control and Anti-discrimination the AIDS/HIV function in AIDS epidemic rural areas.