Objective To understand the rate of understanding relevant knowledge

attitudes

and behaviors of college students towards AIDS before and after receiving the health education

to appraise the effect of health education

and discuss effective ways of preventing AIDS infections at institutions of higher learning.Method Adopt the method of group sampling and conduct a questionnaire survey to 300 freshman year college students of Tianjin University before and after the AIDS health education and make statistical analysis of the surveyed results.Results In the aftermath of receiving AIDS health education

the rate of understanding the knowledge on AIDS prevention and treatment of college students have gained marked increase

and the effect indexes of the health education were all above 1.0.The differences before and after the education in this regard were statistically significant（P<0.01）.Furthermore

the discrimination against AIDS infected persons saw a marked decrease

and the differences before and after the education in this regard were also statistically significant（P<0.01）.As to the degree of receptiveness toward pre-marital sex

homosexuality

and multiple sex partners

the differences as shown before and after the education were not statistically significant.ConclusionConducting health education on college students on the prevention of AIDS is both necessary and effective

and multiple forms of AIDS health education should be practiced among college students so as to prevent and control the infection and spread of AIDS.