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| Article Name : | | | KNOWLEDGE OF HIV/AIDS AMONG UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS IN KARNATAKA | | Author Name : | | | Devindrappa Mahadevappa , S. L. Hiremath | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-4968 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first diagnosed in the United States (US) in 1981; over 90% of all infected cases occur in developing countries and the number of cases is increasing every year. AIDS can provoke irrational emotions and fears in health care and had called for a national response in terms of both HIV prevention and care. There was a violent ten-year conflict in Nepal. The authors of a recent article state that the violent conflict may have fuelled the HIV/AIDS epidemic in india. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic knocks number of countries’ In India, several thousand HIV-infected babies are expected to be born every year (Rahbar et al., 2007). The rising prevalence of HIV among pregnant women in rural India is of great concern (Rogers et al., 2006). India is now in the grip of so-called type pattern of AIDS epidemic which shifts from high risk group to the bridge population (clients of sex workers, STD patients) and then to general population, as a whole (Govt. of India, 1999). | | Keywords : | | - Analysis of variance (ANOVA),
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