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18.4 KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES ABOUT HIV/AIDSVirtually all children age 12-14 have heard of HIV/AIDS (97 percent) and there are no majorvariations in the knowledge by their background characteristics. Among children who have heard aboutHIV/AIDS, 84 percent believe it is possible to avoid or reduce the chances of getting AIDS and 82percent know that a healthy-looking person can have AIDS. This belief and knowledge are higher amonggirls than boys. For instance, 87 percent of girls and 80 percent of boys believe that there are ways toavoid or reduce the chances of getting AIDS. Knowledge of AIDS is higher among children who live inurban areas than in rural areas (87 percent and 83 percent, respectively), as indicated in Table 18.5.Table 18.5 Knowledge about HIV/AIDSPercentage of children age 12-14 who have heard about HIV/AIDS and, among those having heardof AIDS, percentage who believe it is possible to avoid or reduce the chances of getting AIDS andwho know that a healthy person can have AIDS, Swaziland 2006-07BackgroundcharacteristicHeardaboutAIDSNumber ofchildrenAmong children age 12-14 who haveheard about AIDS, percentage who:Believe it ispossible to Know a Number ofavoid or healthylookingchildrenreduce thewho havechances of person can heard aboutgetting AIDS have AIDS AIDSSexFemale 97.8 465 86.8 83.9 455Male 96.5 409 80.3 79.7 394ResidenceUrban 98.9 104 87.3 85.2 103Rural 97.0 769 83.3 81.5 746RegionHhohho 95.1 228 81.8 80.0 217Manzini 98.5 255 85.4 84.6 251Shiselweni 99.1 213 87.4 84.8 211Lubombo 95.9 178 79.2 77.1 171Living arrangementsLiving with both parents 95.8 151 81.8 78.4 145Living with father/not mother 98.5 71 79.8 80.0 70Living with mother/not father 97.7 295 87.7 83.9 288Not living with either parent 97.3 332 81.9 83.0 323Missing (94.9) 25 (84.2) (73.3) 24Orphanhood statusBoth parents alive 96.8 552 83.5 82.5 534Mother dead/father alive 100.0 73 90.4 76.9 73Father dead/mother alive 97.3 180 83.6 83.1 175Both parents dead 97.2 69 78.7 80.2 67OVC statusOrphan 1 97.9 322 84.1 81.1 315Vulnerable 2 (90.8) 32 (91.0) (86.5) 29Orphan and vulnerable * 14 * * 13Neither orphan nor vulnerable 97.2 533 83.3 82.6 518Total 97.2 874 83.7 82.0 850Note: Figures in parentheses are based on 25-49 unweighted cases. An asterisk indicates that an estimateis based on fewer than 25 unweighted cases and has been suppressed.1One or both parents dead2Have a very sick parent or live in a household where an adult has been very sick or died in the past 12monthsYouth | 281

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