Objective To have knowledge about the status quo of relevant AIDS knowledge

attitude

practice of military students so as to provide a basis for further carrying out propaganda and education for preventing AIDS.Method A questionnaire was designed

and 4 102 students were investigated with the questionnaire in an anonymous manner.Results The correct rate for answering relevant knowledge and transmission route of AIDS was 23.41%

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0.54%;44.15% of the students had a sense of fear upon the mention of AIDS

20.21% could accept that they lived with AIDS patients or HIV carrier in the same dormitory;88.57% of the students thought that AIDS virus only transmitted among drug addicts and people who had multiple sexual partners;for the source of knowledge about AIDS

the most common one was TV

radio and newspaper

which accounted for 76.30%

then the network followed with a percentage of 70.36%

and knowledge acquired from courses or lectures only accounted for 22.33%.Conclusion Students in this university are in lack of systematic AIDS-related knowledge

the partly awareness rate of knowledge is relatively low

and the attitude and practice is not optimistic.Strengthening propaganda and education for preventing HIDS and eliminating students’ fear for AIDS should be the key point of future propaganda and education on relevant knowledge.