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. 1991 Dec;81(12):1638-41.
doi: 10.2105/ajph.81.12.1638.

Knowledge about HIV and behavioral risks of foreign-born Boston public school students

R W Hingson  1 , L Strunin, M Grady, N Strunk, R Carr, B Berlin, D E Craven
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Knowledge about HIV and behavioral risks of foreign-born Boston public school students

R W Hingson et al. Am J Public Health. 1991 Dec.

Abstract

In 1990, 3049 Boston public middle and high school students were surveyed anonymously in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, French, or Haitian Creole. Significantly fewer immigrant students, 35% of those surveyed, knew the principal modes of human immunodeficiency virus transmission. Fewer immigrants reported having sexual intercourse (31% vs 53% of nonimmigrants), but among the sexually active only 38% always used condoms, and more immigrants reported intercourse with intravenous drug users (4% vs 1% of non-immigrants). AIDS education should be taught to immigrant students in their native languages.

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