Intervención educativa para elevar conocimientos sobre las ITS/VIH/SIDA en jóvenes <span class="so-article-trans-title" dir="auto"> Translated title: Educational intervention to elevate knowledge on STI/ HIV / AIDS in youths </span>

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Fundamento: el propósito de los programas de educación en las infecciones de transmisión sexual es proveer a estudiantes del conocimiento y la destreza que le permita comportarse de forma responsable y por consiguiente proteger su propia salud. Objetivo: elevar el nivel de conocimiento sobre las ITS/VIH/SIDA en los jóvenes seleccionados después de intervenciones educativas en la Facultad de Tecnología de la Salud Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja. Método: se realizó un estudio experimental de intervención para elevar conocimientos sobre ITS/VIH/SIDA en la Facultad de Tecnología de la provincia Camagüey en el año 2007-2008. El universo de estudio estuvo integrado por cuatrocientos veintidós jóvenes, la muestra estuvo constituida por doscientos uno de ellos. Para la selección de la muestra se utilizó el método aleatorio simple, las variables utilizadas fueron: edad, sexo, primeras relaciones sexuales y nivel de conocimiento. Resultados: predominó el sexo femenino durante el estudio, los conocimientos sobre las ITS/VIH/SIDA en la primera encuesta fueron de 56,21% regular, 38,32% mal y sólo el 5,42% bien. En la segunda encuesta se obtuvo resultados alentadores luego de las intervenciones educativas donde el 92,6% fue evaluado de bien y el 7,4% de regular, no existió ningún estudiante evaluado de mal. Conclusiones: hubo mayor participación de estudiantes del sexo femenino en el estudio. Se observó un inicio precoz de las primeras relaciones sexuales en las edades de doce a catorce años fundamentalmente en el sexo masculino.

Translated abstract

Background: the purpose of education programs on sexually transmitted infections is to provide students of knowledge and the dexterity that allows them to behave in a responsible way and consequently to protect their own health. Objective: to elevate the level of knowledge on STI/HIV/AIDS in youths selected after educational interventions in the faculty of Health Technology at Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja . Method: an experimental study of intervention to elevate knowledge on STI/HIV/AIDS from 2007 to 2008 was conducted. The study universe was integrated by four hundred twenty-two youths, the sample was constituted by two hundred-one of them. For the selection of the sample the aleatory simple method was used, the used variables were: age, sex, first sexual intercourses and level of knowledge. Results: the female sex prevailed during the study, the knowledge on STI/HIV/AIDS in the first survey was about 56,21% evaluated of regular, the 38,32% of bad and only the 5,42% of well. In the second survey it was obtained encouraging results after the educational interventions where 92,6% was evaluated of well and 7,4% of regular, none evaluated of bad. Conclusions: there was a bigger participation in the study of the female sex. A precocious beginning of sexual first intercourses was observed in the ages between twelve to fourteen years fundamentally in the masculine sex.

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Estimated risk of transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus by screened blood in the United States.

Glen Satten, V Raimondi, R. Dodd … (1995)

In the United States, transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by blood transfusion occurs almost exclusively when a recently infected blood donor is infectious but before antibodies to HIV become detectable (during the "window period"). We estimated the risk of HIV transmission caused by transfusion on the basis of the window period associated with the use of current, sensitive enzyme immunosorbent assays and recent data on HIV incidence among blood donors. We analyzed demographic and laboratory data on more than 4.1 million blood donations obtained in 1992 and 1993 in 19 regions served by the American National Red Cross, as well as the results of HIV-antibody tests of 4.9 million donations obtained in an additional 23 regions. We estimated that, in the 19 study regions, 1 donation in every 360,000 (95 percent confidence interval, 210,000 to 1,140,000) was made during the window period. In addition, it is estimated that 1 in 2,600,000 donations was HIV-seropositive but was not identified as such because of an error in the laboratory. We estimated that 15 to 42 percent of window-period donations were discarded because they were seropositive on laboratory tests other than the HIV-antibody test. When these results were extrapolated to include the additional 23 Red Cross service regions, there was a risk of one case of HIV transmission for every 450,000 to 660,000 donations of screened blood. If the Red Cross centers are assumed to be representative of all U.S. blood centers, among the 12 million donations collected nationally each year an estimated 18 to 27 infectious donations are available for transfusion. The estimated risk of transmitting HIV by the transfusion of screened blood is very small and nearly half that estimated previously, primarily because the sensitivity of enzyme immunosorbent assays has been improved.