Abstract:
HIV/AIDS is a major health problem. Students of higher education are more at risk of HIV.
Insufficient knowledge, less favorable attitudes and risky sexual practices are the major
hindrances to prevent the spread of HIV. This study was aimed to assess knowledge, attitude
and practices towards HIV prevention among college students of Gondar, Ethiopia.
Institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted among 355 study participants from
April to June, 2018. A simple random sampling technique was used to select study participants;
data was coded by Epi info software and analyzed using SPSS 20 version software. From 355
students, 347 (97.7%) had knowledgeable towards HIV prevention, the majority 352 (99.2%)
had favorable attitude towards HIV/AIDS prevention and 65 (18.3%) had good practices
towards HIV prevention at p= 0.001 significance levels.
