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Share of young people with knowledge on HIV prevention [1]

['Max Roser', 'Hannah Ritchie']

Date: 2025-05

This indicator measures the percentage of respondents that answered "YES" to all the responses below:

Can the risk of HIV transmission be reduced by having sex with only one uninfected partner who has no other partners? Can a person reduce the risk of getting HIV by using a condom every time they have sex? Can a healthy-looking person have HIV? Can a person get HIV from mosquito bites? Can a person get HIV by sharing food with someone who is infected?

The first three questions should not be altered. Questions 4 and 5 ask about local misconceptions and may be replaced by the most common misconceptions in your country. Examples include: “Can a person get HIV by hugging or shaking hands with a person who is infected?” and “Can a person get HIV through supernatural means?”

Those who have never heard of HIV and AIDS should be excluded from the numerator but included in the denominator. An answer of “don't know” should be recorded as an incorrect answer.

Scores for each of the individual questions (based on the same denominator) are required as well as the score for the composite indicator.

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