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Revista Cubana de Medicina Tropical
versão On-line ISSN 1561-3054
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TOLEDO VILA, Herio de Jesús; NAVAS PINZON, Jaime Alberto; NAVAS PINZON, Lucía Cristina e PEREZ MANRIQUE, Nelly. Los adolescentes y el SIDA. Rev Cubana Med Trop [online]. 2002, vol.54, n.2, pp. 152-157. ISSN 1561-3054.
A cross-sectional descriptive study was made based on surveys which determined the level of knowledge on the most frequent risk factors to catch HIV/AIDS; general data about HIV; sex behaviors and risk factors for young adults. The universe of study was made up of 404 students at 9th, 10th and 11th grades, who live in the urban area of Arauquita municipality, Arauca, Colombia. A randomized systematic sampling was carried out; 50 % of the students were taken as a sample, that is, 202 students. The survey used was an anonymous structured questionnaire consisting of 30 multiple choice questions and open numerical exclusion.
Palavras-chave : ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; RISK FACTORS; ADOLESCENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE; DATA COLLECTION.