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    Introduction

    This chapter commences with a global overview of HIV/AIDS, and then shows the impact of this pandemic on each country—Fiji, Guyana, Vanuatu, and Antigua and Barbuda—in this multi-country study. The chapter the...

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    Methodology

    The study focused on the relationship between high school students’ HIV/AIDS knowledge and their stigma-related attitudes/perceptions of the PLHIV; to identify their stigma-related attitudes toward PLHIV and H...

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    HIV/AIDS Stigma

    Overall, about two-thirds of Fiji and Vanuatu high school students and about three-quarters of Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda students showed HIV/AIDS stigma-appropriate attitudes. Fiji and Antigua and Barbuda...

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    Discussion and Implications

    This multi-country study was conducted over the last four years among high school students in Fiji, Vanuatu, Guyana, and Antigua and Barbuda to compare differences and relationships in students’ HIV/AIDS knowl...

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    A Systematic Review of the Literature

    This systematic review, spanning 27 years, synthesized several research perspectives into an across-the-board multi-dimensional framework of HIV/AIDS knowledge and HIV/AIDS-related stigma among adolescents, li...

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    HIV/AIDS Knowledge

    Overall, all high school students in the four countries—Fiji, Guyana, Vanuatu, and Antigua and Barbuda—had moderate HIV/AIDS knowledge. Nevertheless, in relation to individual countries, Fiji and Vanuatu in th...

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    Predictors of HIV/AIDS Knowledge and HIV-Related Stigma

    This chapter identifies the predictors of HIV/AIDS knowledge and HIV/AIDS stigma-appropriate attitudes. Prior to commencing the logistic regression analysis, it was first useful to apply the general linear F-t...

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