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Will Education Prevent Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection?
Richard Wetzel, MD
Huntington Beach, Calif
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(4):309.
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There was great irony in the June 1993 issue of the ARCHIVES. On the one hand, the article by Parra et al1 stated that "even though most of the females understood how HIV [human immunodeficiency virus] was transmitted and recognized themselves as at risk for AIDS [acquired immunodeficiency syndrome], they continued to share needles unsafely and place themselves at risk for acquiring HIV infection through sex." On the other hand, another article2 in the same issue states that "education programs on HIV that target this vulnerable group [adolescents] effectively prevent infection." How is it that HIV education is insufficient to cause significant attitudinal or behavioral change among all populations of adults studied and yet is effective among adolescents?
Ryan et al2 make a fundamental mistake by assuming that school-based education makes a difference in the incidence of HIV infection. This assumption is not supported by the few references given in the
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