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    Assessment of knowledge attitude and practice with regard to AIDS hotline service among preparatory school students in Addis Ababa.
    (Addis Abeba Universty, 2007-07) Mamo, Emebet; Melkamu, Yilma(PhD)
    Young peoples specific needs of sexual and reproductive information and service remained poorly understood or served in most of the countries of the world. These days; however, since young people SRH problems are becoming serious public health issues in many countries the needs of specific youth friendly SRH services for young people have gained attention. A cross sectional descriptive survey through a self administered anonymous and structured questionnaire was conducted from March 2007- April 2007 in randomly selected preparatory schools found in Addis Ababa. Students who are in grade 11 and 12 were included to determine their knowledge, attitude and practice with regard to AIDS hotline counseling service. In this study 805 participants filled out a structured and pre tested questionnaire. Focus group discussion also conducted with two groups (male and female) students selected from Anti AIDS club members both in governmental and non governmental schools prior to the quantitative data collection in order to know any information which may be essential for the preparation of the questionnaire as well to supplement the findings of quantitative result. Among the respondents 424 (52.8%) were male and the mean age (+SD) of respondents was 16.98 (+1.2) years. Six hundred ninety seven (86.7%) of the participants reported that they knew about the existence of AIDS hotline counseling services and 211 (30.2 %) used the service of whom 118 (56.0%) were males and 93 (44.0%) were females and the major reason for calling was facts such as ways of HIV/AIDS transmission and related facts.