The prevention of HIV/AIDS in the university training of teachers and social educators

Abstract

This research presents some of the results on University of Huelva Education Degrees students' knowledge towards the HIV/ AIDS, regarding the degree and quality of their knowledge of the disease. Thank to them, we have been able to explore and identify the effects of the absence or lack of veracious information and, consequently, to propose educational actions in the University sphere, which is viewed as a health promotion agent. By means of a questionnaire applied to a sample of over six hundred subjects we managed to discover that, half of them KDYH DQ LQVXIÀFLHQW UHVXOW LQ WKH NQRZOHGJH WHVW WKH GLVLQIRUPDWLRQ RI IXQGDPHQWDO issues - like ways of transmission of the HIV - remains. In short, our analysis evokes the need to elaborate and develop educational proposals, which would improve the students' competencies in this matter, these students being future education professionals in the school and social spheres.