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Educational Intervention among Barbers to Improve Their Knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS: A Pilot Study from a South Asian Country.

Content Provider	Europe PMC
Author	Kumar Krishanani, Mukesh Ali, Faridah Amir Khuwaja (Late), Ali Khan Qidwai, Waris Ali, Badar Sabir
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	One of the Millennium Development Goals is to combat HIV, the burden of which continues to increase in developing countries, like Pakistan. The prevalence is high among the high-risk population, and the use of unsterilized surgical instruments, traditional straight razors, and blades adds to the spread of this disease. This study assesses the effect of an educational intervention on the knowledge of 70 barbers practising in a suburban community in Pakistan regarding HIV and its symptoms and transmission. At baseline, only 10% of the barbers reported that they had ever heard about HIV compared to 49% after the intervention. Similarly, 4% and 6% of them had good knowledge at baseline about symptoms and transmission of the disease, increasing to 39% and 43% respectively, after the intervention (p<0.001). The results of this educational intervention warrant consideration of activation of mass campaigns to increase public awareness about bloodborne diseases and to educate personnel who might harm the persons in their communities by unsafe practices.
ISSN	16060997
Journal	Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition
Volume Number	32
PubMed Central reference number	PMC4221444
Issue Number	3
PubMed reference number	25395901
e-ISSN	20721315
Language	English
Publisher	International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Publisher Date	2014-09-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH, BANGLADESH
Subject Keyword	Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome AIDS Barbers Educational intervention Human immunodeficiency virus HIV Pakistan
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Food Science

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