1Senior Lecturer, Ahilya Bai College of Nursing, Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi
2Former Principal, RAK College of Nursing, Andrews Ganj, New Delhi. Presently Vice President of Indian Nursing Council
India accounts for about 7% of all HIV/AIDS cases in the world. Globally, women constitute 48% of adults infected with HIV; in India they constitute 39%.In this context present study was conducted to assess knowledge and attitude about HIV/AIDS in antenatal women.
A cross sectional study was conducted in 90 randomly selected women attending
ANC clinic at a selected hospital of Delhi.
The antenatal women had average to moderate knowledge about HIV/AIDS. The study revealed that higher education levels were significantly associated with more knowledge about HIV/AIDS. The study revealed that misconceptions about of transmission are very prevalent and education levels were not found to affect these false beliefs in statistically significant manner. The study also revealed negative attitude of pregnant women about the disease. Increasing the knowledge about HIV/AIDS by improving education levels and using mass media and IEC activities would be helpful in reducing incidence of HIV/AIDS.
Knowledge, Attitude and Pregnant Women
