Over 90 percent of the british public do not fully understand how hiv is transmitted

Over 90 percent of the british public do not fully understand how hiv is transmitted

Publication date

Thursday, January 17, 2008
The National AIDS Trust announces today [17 January], findings from their Public Attitudes Towards HIV Survey, which shows more than 1 out of 5 people in the UK cannot identify each of the main ways in which HIV is transmitted.  And only 6 per cent surveyed were able to correctly identify all of the ways HIV was transmitted, without any false responses.