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Despite the increased amount of HIV/AIDS education in the region and in schools, misconceptions were noted about routes of infection and ways to prevention infection.
In Northwest Ethiopia, it was reported that although knowledge on HIV was reasonably high, considerable misconceptions were noted among the study population [ 20].
Misconceptions were noted in the inability to formulate hypotheses and understanding of the significance of the probability that statistical tests associate to these hypotheses.
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In addition to program characteristics, stigma and misconceptions about smoking cessation during pregnancy emerged strongly in interviews and were noted barriers to accessing adequate support.
These misconceptions have been noted in other surveys (10, 11 ).
In addition to their role in dispelling rumours and misconceptions the CAB was noted to help mobilize communities and increase recruitment (3 responses) and improve retention in the study (3 responses).
However, many misconceptions were still noted relating to HIV/AIDS, with 9% of students believing that children would never be affected by HIV/AIDS, 10% believing that HIV-positive people can be recognized by their appearance, 9% and 11% believing that there is a cure and vaccine for AIDS respectively.
It should be noted that our study focuses on developing assessment instruments that can effectively measure the presence of misconceptions.
Most misconceptions were dispelled by the teams.
Misconceptions were corrected.
Novel misconceptions were also identified.
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