Knowledge of HIV/AIDS
At the pre-test, 41.2% had comprehensive knowledge on HIV. After the training, the HIV knowledge increased to 78.7% indicating that the trainings were successful in increasing HIV specific knowledge of the participants. Table 1 shows the 23 components of the comprehensive HIV knowledge indicator separately. The areas with the lowest knowledge after the training were the questions about non-sexual HIV transmission, the fluids containing HIV, prevention (condoms, pre and post-exposure prophylaxis) and treatment of HIV. The HIV knowledge score showed an overall 37.5% statistically significant increase (P-value<0.05) in high knowledge after the interventions (Figure 1 ). This increase was particularly striking among the Bekaa sample that had a baseline high knowledge of only 7.1% and a post-intervention high knowledge of 53.8% indicating a 46.7% increase in high knowledge among this subsample.