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| Published: September 25, 2015
HIV/AIDS awareness among Female Sex Workers
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow
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Masters of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow
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DIP: 18.01.024/20150204
DOI: 10.25215/0204.024
ABSTRACT
Context / background: The present study endeavourers to cast a glance at HIV/AIDS awareness among Female Sex Workers in CREATE (Centre for Rural Entrepreneurship and Technical Education) at Lucknow. Aim: To explore HIV/AIDS awareness among female sex workers. Methods: An ex post facto research with an exploratory orientation was conducted, on 50 female sex workers selected on the basis of purposive sampling (age ranged 20-30 years). An effort was made to identify the level of awareness among female sex workers through self devised questions. Percentage analysis was done. Results: Results revealed that majority of female sex workers were aware of HIV/AIDS, STD, there causes and preventive aspects. Conclusions: Though the picture seemed somewhat positive yet it is pathetic that almost half of the sample seemed either confused or unaware of the essential concepts regarding HIV/AIDS.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2015 I A Shukla, D Mehrotra
Received: June 12, 2015; Revision Received: July 19, 2015; Accepted: September 25, 2015
Dr. Archana Shukla @ archana.kshitish@gmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.024/20150204
10.25215/0204.024
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Published in Volume 02, Issue 4, July-September, 2015