Abstract:

Objectives：To explore AIDS—related knowledge and drug eharacteristies among male addicts under coereive drug rehabilitation in Dali Labor Education Station．Methods：By cluster rand—Dill sampling，350 questionnaires of drug addicts in Dali Labor Education Station about demographic characteristics，behaviour and AIDS—related knowledge were analyzed． Results：The number of survey collected was 339．Among the addicts，the youngest was 1 6 years old，and the oldest was 60．the average age was33． 34±7．34．
The edu cational backgrounds of the addicts under coercive drug rehabilitation mainly were elementary school (3 1．6％) and junior high school(51．O％ )．The average length of drug addiction was 8．94-4-6．42 year．with the shortest of 6 months and the longest of 43 years．56.3％ of addicts were simple oral dug，26．8％ of addicts were intravenous；drug with sharing syringes．Compared to TV programs．news—papers an(1 books and other resources，their HIV／AIDS—relates1 knowledge were largely obtained from the train course in Labor Edueati0n Station．76％ of adicts knew how to prevent from H1V／AIDS in ction．Conclusion：It is vital to take comprehensive measures t0 improve HIV／AIDS—related knowledge education in the drug addiction population in order to rednee HIV infection.

Key words: addicts under coercive drug rehabilitation, drug characteristics, HIV／AIDS—related knowledge, survey