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.