AIDS KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION FOR SOUTH KOREAN-BORN STUDENTS ATTENDI

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.

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oung South Koreans currently living in America (many of whom are probably college students) might be one of the groups still showing an increase in HIV/AIDS transmissions in this country. The next section of this review examines the research that has been conducted on this group as well as the general studies on HIV/AIDS and South Koreans. HIV/AIDS and South Koreans The literature on AIDS among South Koreans can be divided into two broad categories: (1) research conducted on people in South Korea; and (2) research conducted on South Koreans living in other countries. Both categories of research are examined in this section of the review. HIV/AIDS in South Korea One index of a country's overall risk for HIV/AIDS is the behavior and attitudes of prostitutes toward the disease. In an effort to examine this index for South Korea, Sohn and Jin (1999) assessed the impact of AIDS-related knowledge and attitudes of prostitutes on condom use. The sample of prostitutes was drawn from diverse sex markets in Korea. The data in Sohn and Jin's (1999) study were collected by interviewers at five different sex markets during March of 1993 for the Institute of Health Services Research. In total, 371 prostitutes visiting sexually transmit
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