The Outlook of Students and Teachers towards People Living with HIV/AIDS

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to highlight the mode of awareness and attitude of students and teachers towards people living with HIV/AIDS by studying a sample of 268 respondents lodged in four selected colleges of capital city, Guwahati of Assam, India. It also tries to focus their comments and suggestions to mitigate discrimination and to make further improvement of existing facilities provided by government for better livelihood of people living with HIV/AIDS. The main contention of the study is that wider arrangement of public awareness camp on HIV/AIDS will lead to bring better result in preventing further spread of the disease and in reducing discrimination in society for better livelihood of people living with HIV/AIDS. The findings of the study revealed the existence of a significant good level of awareness and positive attitude among the respondents towards people living with HIV/AIDS.