HIV / AIDS and Indian youth - a review of the literature (1980 - 2008) : original article
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Abstract
The main objective of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the situation regarding HIV / AIDS among youth in India, and explore the possible strategies that could be effective in combating the spread of this disease. India is in the grip of the HIV / AIDS epidemic, with an increasing number of infections being reported among youth, who comprise a quarter of the population but account for almost one-third of the HIV / AIDS burden. The prevalence in young women appears to be on the rise. Although the majority of youth are aware of the disease, a number of myths and misconceptions still prevail. Furthermore, or as a consequence, a higher percentage of young males report engaging in premarital sexual activity compared with females. Even though condom awareness is fairly high, condom usage is low. Of late, sex tourism and its implications for the HIV / AIDS epidemic present an increasing concern. Indian youth appear to hold negative attitudes towards HIV testing and people living with HIV / AIDS. Although a number of preventive and control programmes and policies exist, these need further strengthening and evaluation. L'objectif principal de cet article est de fournir une synthese detaillee de la situation relative au VIH / SIDA chez les jeunes en Inde, et d'etudier les strategies possibles pouvant s'averer efficaces pour lutter contre la propagation de cette maladie. L'Inde est en proie a une epidemie de VIH / SIDA, un nombre de plus en plus important d'infections etant rapporte chez les jeunes, qui representent le quart de la population, mais quasiment le tiers des personnes touchees par le fleau du VIH / SIDA. La prevalence chez les jeunes femmes est en augmentation. Bien que la majorite des jeunes aient conscience de la maladie, de nombreux mythes et opinions fausses prevalent toujours. De plus, ou en consequence, un pourcentage plus important de jeunes hommes que de jeunes femmes indiquent prendre part a une activite sexuelle avant mariage. Bien qu'ils soient conscients de l'importance du preservatif, son utilisation est relativement faible. Depuis peu, le tourisme sexuel et ses implications pour l'epidemie de VIH constituent une preoccupation de plus en plus importante. La jeunesse indienne semble adopter des attitudes negatives a l'egard du depistage du VIH et des personnes vivant avec le VIH / SIDA. Bien qu'un nombre important de programmes et de politiques de prevention et de controle existe, il est necessaire de les renforcer davantage et de les evaluer.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".