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AIDS KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION FOR SOUTH KOREAN-BORN STUDENTS ATTENDI

AIDS KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION FOR SOUTH KOREAN-BORN STUDENTS ATTENDING AMERICAN COLLEGES

According to the Centers for Disease Control (1998), approximately 13 million people in the world now have AIDS. In America, 641,086 cases have been reported since the discovery of the HIV virus and about half of these have now died. However, the Centers for Disease Control (1998) also reports a decline in reports of HIV/AIDS, attributing a great deal of the decrease to prevention efforts. Specifically, the CDC noted that:

Prior to the introduction of combination therapies for HIV, AIDS incidence was increasing at a rate of less than 5 percent each year. Partly as a result of prevention efforts targeting those at highest risk, the epidemic had slowed considerably from the early years in the epidemic, when increases were 65 percent to 95 percent each year. In 1996, estimated AIDS incidence dropped for the first time, declining 6 percent. (p. 1)

The CDC (1998) further notes that while prevention efforts have helped slow the epidemic from a period of rapid growth to an overall stabilization, this success rate is not the same in all communities. For example, the growth of AIDS has not seriously decreased among communities of drug users and/or prostitutes. One group that has not been examined for the impact of prevention efforts on decreasing AIDS/AIDS risk is that of foreign college students studying in America.

Regarding HIV/AIDS as may be related to foreigners in general and South Koreans in particular, a study conducted by Kihara, Kihara, Ohya and Ichikawa (1998) found that among immigrant groups living in Japan, HIV/AIDS was generally increasing with the highest increases observed for South Americans and South Koreans. Based on their data, the authors noted that for foregoing groups, HIV/AIDS prevention and care programs as well as more epidemiological studies should be urgently planned and implemented.

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