Abstract:Introduction: HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, is the virus that causes AIDS. For many reasons, AIDS is a disease that commonly misunderstood disease and as a result, unduly feared, but the weapon against fear is knowledge. Objective is to assess knowledge and the status of prevailing misconception of HIV/AIDS in the rural population of Venkatachalam PHC area. Methods & Material: Community based descriptive cross sectional study among people aged more than 13 years, using cluster samplingtechnique, 1332 … Show more
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