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The Federal Centre for Health Education endeavours to make its work as effective as possible. To achieve this goal, there is a need to constantly improve education activities and continuously review the success of the measures.
It is for this reason that we regularly conduct studies.
They make it possible
- To gear the planning and implementation of education measures in the various subject fields to the latest scientific findings,
- To examine whether our measures really do achieve the targeted, health-promoting effects.
Although the questions and the results of these studies therefore always have a direct link to the work of BZgA, they also contain a wealth of information that can be used by the interested public, and particularly by people and institutions working in the field of health prevention.
Consequently, all the studies conducted by BZgA are published.
The studies and evaluation results from the field of sex education, contraception and family planning can be found at: www.forschung.sexualaufklaerung.de
We will be more than pleased to provide further information:
Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung
Referat 2-25
Ostmerheimer Strasse 220
D-51109 Köln, Germany
E-mail: forschung(at)bzga.de
See below the list of all available studies with at least an englisch short version.
The overall list of all available studies can be found here.
Public Awareness of AIDS in the Federal Republic of Germany 2007
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviour relating to protection against AIDS
A repeat survey by the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA), Cologne
Aids im öffentlichen Bewusstsein der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 2007
Since the mid-1980s, the AIDS education campaign entitled "Don´t give AIDS a chance" has been informing the population of the Federal Republic of Germany about the disease AIDS and the associated infection risks. It tells people that and how they can protect themselves against infection with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Information offerings based on mass and personal communication have been specifically geared to different groups of the population since 1987.
The principal goals of the campaign are to prevent the further spread of HIV and to create and stabilise a social climate that opposes the stigmatisation and isolation of people with HIV and
AIDS.
Since 1987, the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) has been conducting an annual survey entitled "Public Awareness of AIDS" to examine
- Whether and to what extent the public is reached by the campaign´s various education measures and makes use of the information offerings,
- Whether the social climate in the population is characterised by acceptance of people with HIV and AIDS, or whether there are detectable tendencies towards their isolation,
- Whether the level of knowledge required for AIDS prevention continues to be maintained, and
- The extent to which people protect themselves against the HI virus by using condoms, especially population groups demonstrating relatively risky sexual behaviour, such as 16 to 44 year-old singles.
The present Summary contains the most important results of the latest survey, which was completed at the end of 2007. Key indicators are presented as medium or long-term trends.
