Application of Hiv/aids Knowledge Among Senior High School Students in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality: What Factors Inhibit the Process?
Author: Maxwell Ofori
Abstract: Plethora empirical evidence suggests that most, school-going age students have difficulty of applying their knowledge gained in HIV/AIDS in order not become victims. This urged and motivated the researcher t to find out the application of HIV/AIDS Knowledge Among Senior High School Students in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality. To get respondents for the study, a simple sampling technique was adopted to select 300 students, comprising 120 boys and 180 girls proportionately selected from the four Senior High Schools in the Municipality. A-37 item questionnaire adapted from Wanjiru Helen Wairimu was used for the data collection. The obtained data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (means, standard deviations, frequencies, and percentages). The study revealed that the students in the LMKM are not applying their knowledge in HIV/AIDS due to certain inhibiting factors such as religion, limited recognition of the personal risk of HIV infection, biological condition, and the pandemic being a curse from the gods are the factors that inhibit the application of HIV/AIDS knowledge of the SHS students in LMKM of the Eastern Region. medical health practitioners, clinical health psychologists, and HIV/AIDS counselors should provide more counseling services to students on HIVAIDS to disabuse their perception that they are not at risk of contracting the virus.