Middle-aged men in some areas of Yunnan AIDS Prevention and Control Survey.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 10 Middle-aged men in some areas of Yunnan AIDS Prevention and Control Survey Study: High-Peng Yu Lin Li Li Chengwen Dragon Duo east [Abstract] Objective To investigate the high incidence of AIDS in Yunnan Province in men over the age of 50 on the cognitive level of AIDS knowledge and needs for further features for the elderly to provide the basis to carry out AIDS prevention work. Methods Yingjiang in Yunnan Province, Kaiyuan Kunming and other urban and rural communities, to take probability sampling of 300 men over the age of 50 conducted a questionnaire survey after the data entry software used by EPidata3.0 SPSS13.0 software for statistical analysis. results in the elderly generally lower level of knowledge about AIDS, 28% correct rate, illiteracy, a lower awareness of rural residents, increasing awareness decreased with age. in the elderly want from the news media, to exchange with others, brochures, etc. to obtain information on AIDS, 67% of people are willing to insist on using condoms. conclusions of older people have some knowledge of AIDS, but not comprehensive enough, strong sense of self-protection, should pay attention to the elderly AIDS health education. [Keywords:] AIDS, men over 50 years of age, awareness, demand Long time, people generally believed that “AIDS is a disease of young people”, on issues related to the elderly and little research on AIDS, HIV infection, AIDS data compilation are generally close to 49 years, 50 years old age groups and almost AIDS in a blind spot (1) In 2003 China Center for Disease Control and Prevention report, from the age distribution of HIV-infected persons to see aged over 50 accounted for 10.5% of AIDS patients in the proportion of people over the age of 50 up to 17% deaths over 50 years of age the proportion of up to 16.6% (2). Therefore, our group in May 2008 to June Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province, Kunming, Kaiyuan, and 300 men aged 50 and above degree of knowledge about