Youth Knowledge and Attitude about HIV/AIDS in District Layyah, Pakistan

The present quantitative study was conducted to explore the youth knowledge and attitude about HIV/AIDS in District Layyah, Pakistan. The universe of the present study consisted of the all the youth able to reproduce. 150 people were selected from the different institutes of layyah through simple random sampling. Description of the data and analysis was done through SPSS. It was concluded that the high level of knowledge about HIV/AIDS leads to the negative attitude toward HIV/AIDS, university students who have attended any program regarding the awareness about HIV/AIDS, they were observed that they have low level of negative attitude about HIV infected people. The health programs about HIV can play a vital role for the changing of negative attitude of youth regarding HIV/ADIS. It was recommended that to improve the knowledge of the youth by HIV/AIDS awareness program, parents and teachers can change the negative attitude of the youth through awareness.