The underlying principle of HIV/AIDS prevention education is that all people have the right to know what HIV is, how it is transmitted and how to prevent infection, and that special measures must be taken for those most vulnerable and most likely to effect change – among young people, girls especially. The majority of young people in the developing world know alarmingly little about the three primary ways to avoid infection. Although many women had heard of AIDS, fewer than half of the young women surveyed in 26 of 27 countries could identify the ABCs of prevention: Abstinence, Being faithful, and using Condoms correctly and.
