A Kap Study Of HIV/AIDS Among The Migrant Population In Railway Stations In Henan Province

The purpose of the KAP study were to understand the related knowledge , attitude and practice to HIV/AIDS and condom utilization of migrant population. in railway station in Henan province; to explore the necessity and feasibility of health education and condom social marketing targeting at the above-mentioned mobile population; and to build up a set of feasible approach to educate migrant population and develop a practicable condom social marketing program.The study was designed and conducted at the 3 railway stations in Henan Province, namely Zhengzhou, Luoyang and Xinyang. Three hundred and fifty sample individuals were interviewed with a structured questionnaire and eleven individuals were interviewed with the discussion guideline. The investigated content focused on knowledge and attitude to HIV/AIDS, attitude and utilization of condom and attitude to health education. The results showed that most of the migrant population had poor knowledge and the attitude of stigma and discrimination to HIV/AIDS ; the needs to condom is higher and condom can be available variously; they expressed positively attitude to HIV/AIDS health education as well. The results also identified that HIV/AIDS education to migrant population is necessary and practicable based on railway department as well as condom social marketing. Some suggestions were given as following: as earlier as possible to develop HIV/AIDS education program and condom social marketing program among the migrant population who travels by train; to develop proper methods to educate the migrant population in HIV/AIDS program.