Abstract
The 10th International Conference on AIDS was held in Yokohama City in August,1994. Before and after the Conference, we conducted two anonymous completed questionnaires. The object of this paper is to clarify such questions as 1)whether people recognize the problem of HIV/AIDS as their own concern,2) what kind of proper knowledge should be provided for the prevention of HIV/AIDS,3) a way to live with HIV/AIDS if we were infected with HIV/AIDS,4) the better way we can live with the people who have HIV/AIDS. To achieve this objective, we focused on the case of the senior population.
As a result of our survey, we received the following three results.1) Most campaigns about HIV/AIDS did not reach the senior population, because the significant emphasis on technical matters regarding safe sex.2) The knowledge for the prevention of HIV/AIDS included not only a medical one, but also a“life consciousness”connected with social value.3) More campaigns should be carried out among differing social groups.
