KNOWLEDGE, PERCEPTIONS AND RISKY BEHAVIOURS WITH REGARD TO HIV/AIDS AMONG secondary school STUDENTS IN CENTRAL UGANDA By SEREBE IVAN DEDICATION I have the pleasure to dedicate this piece of work to Dr Martin Odiit of Uganda HIV/AIDS Control Project who has always been there for me. May God richly reward you. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My heartfelt gratitude goes to, Prof JP Ntozi and Dr Emmanuel Sekatawa for their professional advice and guidance. I also thank the management and staff of Uganda HIV/AIDS Control Project in particular Dr Martin Odiit, the M&E specialist for providing me with the data and technical advice. List of abbreviations and acronyms AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome AIC:AIDS Information Centre ART: Ant-Retroviral Therapy BCC:Behavioural Change Communication HIV: Human Immune Virus KABP: Knowledge, Attitude, Belief and Practices MoH: Ministry of Health N: Total number of respondents S.E:Standard error SPSS: Statistical Package for Social Scientists STDs:Sexually Transmitted Diseases STIs: Sexually Transmitted Infections UAC: Uganda AIDS Commission UACP: Uganda HIV/AIDS Control Project UBOS: Uganda Bureau of Statistics UDHS: Uganda Demographic Health Survey UNAIDS: The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS UNICEF: United Nations Childrens Fund USAID: United States Agency for International Development. VCT: Voluntary Counselling and Testing WHO: World Health Organisation.
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ABSTRACT Whereas the majority of Ugandans are knowledgeable about HIV/AIDS, young people still engage in risky behaviours. The general objective of the study was to determine knowledge, perceptions and risky behaviors among secondary school students in central Uganda regarding HIV/AIDS. Specifically, the study determined the influence of knowledge and perception of secondary school students with risky behaviours to HIV prevention. Lot Quality Assurance Survey/ Sampling (LQAS) method was used in the collection of this data. The LQAS is a sampling technique that stratifies the study population, in this case schools in a district into at least five homogeneous strata. Subsequently, 19 individuals are randomly selected from each stratum (class) thereby giving a sample size of a total of at least 95 respondents in a school. Hence, data was collected from 23 secondary schools from five districts in central Uganda and with a total sample size of 2,030 students/ respondents.
The data was collected in 2006 by Uganda HIV/AIDS Control Project (UACP) a project funded by the World Bank and the Government of Uganda whose objective is to support the National Strategic Framework for HIV/AIDS, 2001 to 2006. The study revealed that students are knowledgeable about the signs of sexually transmitted diseases (83.3 %) which means that efforts should target practice other than knowledge increase but have limited knowledge about health facilities (65%).
Generally, students do think that they are at risk of getting HIV (57%) and the main reasons of not being at risk were sexual abstinence (26.4%) and being young (14.3 %) hence abstinence should be promoted in schools. Although 46.5% of the students had ever had sex, only 23.9% of the respondents were sexually active which indicates that there is secondary abstinence taking place. The study also found out that students in mixed day schools are 2. times more likely (p.
