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Youth and HIV & AIDS > India Sex Survey
 
Youth & HIV & AIDS
 

Please indicate if you agree or disagree with the following statements and see if your answers match ours.
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HIV is the same as AIDS.

Yes

No

HIV only affects gay men - It's a "gay disease".

Yes

No

We both have HIV so we don't' need to use a condom during sex.

Yes

No

People over the age of 50 don't get HIV.

Yes

No

I have HIV.I can't have children.

Yes

No

You don't need to use a condom during oral sex.

Yes

No

HIV can be cured.

Yes

No

I got tested right after I had unprotected sex and I was negative. I'm fine!

Yes

No

HIV is scary - the best way to protect myself is to avoid anyone who is HIV+.

Yes

No

It is your fault if you get infected - you just have to stop having promiscuous sex and using drugs to not get it.

Yes

No

I don't look or feel sick - I can't be infected!

Yes

No

The best way to control AIDS in the developing world is through prevention. Costly treatment should wait until prevention programmes have been fully funded and deployed.

Yes

No

AIDS treatment in the developing world is impossible because antiretroviral drugs are too expensive and because developing countries lack the infrastructure necessary to deliver the drugs.

Yes

No

An HIV vaccine will soon be available, and this will solve the AIDS crisis.

Yes

No

HIV & AIDS treatment is an invasion of Western medicine / culture

Yes

No

Women can "shed" the HIV infection through their monthly menstruation cycles.

Yes

No

You only get the virus if you have "weak blood".

Yes

No

HIV is a punishment for moral shortcomings or lack of self-control.

Yes

No

If you have HIV and you have sex with a virgin you will be cured

Yes

No

HIV & AIDS is a private matter that should not be discussed in public

Yes

No

Ordinary people can do very little to help in the fight against AIDS

Yes

No

 
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