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Young people know less about HIV and are less trustful of condoms, French survey finds
Gus Cairns, 2013-01-10 07:10:00
The first survey for six years of attitudes to HIV and sexual risk behaviour among the general public in France has found that young people are less frightened of AIDS than they used to be, are more likely to believe in unlikely routes of HIV transmission, and are strikingly less trustful that condoms will reliably protect them against HIV.
The study finds that almost everyone knows about the most common ways HIV is transmitted, and that condoms as a general anti-HIV and contraceptive strategy are still widely used, far more so than the days before widespread public awareness of HIV.
However, it finds a considerable decline, relative to earlier surveys, in the proportion of people who used condoms the last time they had sex, especially in longer-term relationships.
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