Study title

Knowledge on AIDS, readiness for protection against AIDS. Attitude to education about AIDS and attitude to HIV-infected. Topics: Satisfaction with personal condition of health; greatest health dangers for the German population; most dangerous illnesses in the Federal Republic; knowledge about AIDS; assessment of the danger of infection with AIDS in selected situations; knowledge about the possibility of transmitting AIDS in various situations; knowledge about the HIV test; frequency of respondent´s having an AIDS test; interest in an HIV test; counselling desired or received before conducting an HIV test; knowledge about the significance of an HIV-positive test result; probability of personal contacts with HIV-infected persons; personal contacts with AIDS patients or HIV-infected people; attitude towards people infected with HIV; concern for personal AIDS disease or HIV infection in one’s circle of friends; point in time of one’s concern about Aids; assessment of personal risk of infection due to sexual intercourse; sources of information about AIDS used; frequency of the topic Aids in one’s circle of friends; personal counselling service in the matter of Aids; use of AIDS brochures from the health authorities; time of last receipt of AIDS education in the media as well as in special information events; where the information events took place; AIDS counselling at school; internet usage on the topic AIDS; knowledge of the publicity campaign “Gib Aids keine Chance”; point in time of the last information by means of poster publicity; knowledge of further selected location of the condom symbol; publicity of radio-spots with the slogans “Kondome schützen” (condoms protect) and “Mach’s mit” (join in); time of the last information by means of radio-publicity spots; knowledge of the existence on the central contact point in Cologne: self-assessment of one’s state of information on AIDS; interest in information on the topic of protection against transmission of the...