Thực trạng kiến thức, thái độ, hành vi và các yếu tố nguy cơ lây nhiễm HIV trong nhóm đồng bào dân tộc thiểu số khu vực biên giới Việt - Lào, tỉnh Điện Biên, năm 2012

The study was conducted on an minority people aged 15-49 years who are living within a erea of 10km from the border between Vietnam and Laos in Dien Bien province to describe the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior factors related to HIV infection. Research results showed that: 72.3 percent of people occasionally hear the knowledge of HIV/AIDS; 10.5 percent of people never heard about HIV/AIDS. Percentage of people misconceptions about HIV transmission: 14 percent of people believe that HIV spread by sharing eating utensils, 12.4 percent by sharing clothing and toilet, 32 percent spread by mosquito bites. 64.1 percent of people think that people with HIV should live with their families; 69.5 percent casual contact with people living with HIV. 21.3 percent of people have access and use of VCT services and 55.6 percent of people living with HIV have access to care and treatment of HIV/AIDS. The factors sex, injecting drug users, cross-cultural, cross border travel are risk factors that lead to HIV infection of the ethnic minorities in the provincial border between Vietnam and Laos and Dien Bien.