AEGiS-APPJ: Public Opinion and AIDS

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Public Opinion and AIDS

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 1, no. 1 (July 1986): 8-13
Eleanor Singer and Theresa F. Rogers

With the exception of a few graphs that depict the trends in the answers Americans gave over the past two years in response to some questions about AIDS, we know of no effort to draw together what the polls tell us about the public's views and concerns. We propose to begin this task by describing public opinion on three dimensions of the problem: perceptions of the risk of contracting the disease; beliefs about how AIDS is transmitted; and attitudes toward various protective measures. We will also touch briefly on attitudes toward homosexuality.
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