Assess the knowledge and attitude of nursing students towards HIV/AIDS

India ranks 2^nd in the number of HIV patients. There is a risk (0.3% after a single percutaneous exposure to HIV/AIDS-infected blood) of transmission of the virus from patient to health care worker. In India, people with HIV frequently encounter discrimination, with serious adverse consequences for their physical and psycho-social well being. So this is an effort to assess the knowledge& attitude of Final year Basic B.Sc. Nursing students towards HIV/AIDS at Karad & to determine association between socio demographic variables with knowledge& attitude. The collected data is analyzed by using descriptive analysis by Instat software. Overall knowledge score is 2137(69.83%). Rating of knowledge score showed no subjects bellow average 64(72.22%) subjects in good rating. Overall attitude score is 1556 (64.03%). Rating of Attitude score showed no subjects bellow average, while 77 (85.55%) in excellent rating. Permanent residence shows significantly association with knowledge towards HIV/AIDS, may be because of more exposure to mass media and extensive coverage by health sector. 59 (89.39%) 21 years old ages students have shown positive attitude as excellent. χ2 2.029 (P Value 0.1544). Correlation Coefficient shows statistically not significant. It indicates their knowledge and attitude are build independently which correlate with earlier findings and suggestions.