Awareness about AIDS, its causes and impact on health in university hostalized girls

Abstract

The main objective of the study was to provide awareness about AIDS its reasons and impact on health. Survey was done which involves 80 students at Girls Hostel Khadija Hall Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan to check their awareness about AIDS. In that survey different questions were asked from the students which including type of AIDS infection either viral or bacterial, type of disease either   metabolic disease or genetically transferred disease , friends and family history of this disease,  the way of its transfer either by blood transfusion or by parents to offspring’s. How it can be treated either by medicine or by surgery. A study was done to collect information about AIDS which includes questions like what is AIDS what are its signs and symptoms how it spreads how it can be control and at the end its available medicine and vaccine Statistical analysis was done by using MS word. It was concluded   from this study   that most of the students claimed AIDS is a fungal infection rather than a viral infection. 52.5% of students said that it is inherited disease and cannot inherit to the next generation. The percentage of students having this disease is 55%.

Keywords: sexually transmitted, antibodies, blood transfusion, other infection, prevention.