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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.
