AEGiS-APPJ: Knowledge of AIDS/HIV Infection Among Migrant Farmworkers

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Knowledge of AIDS/HIV Infection Among Migrant Farmworkers

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 5, no. 4 (Winter 1990): 173-77
Keith V. Bletzer

The survey data reported here were collected by the author, who serves as coordinator for the Migrant AIDS Education Project sponsored by Michigan Economics for Human Development (MEHD). The agency developed its migrant AIDS education program by cooperating with agencies in the four other states that comprise the Midwest Regional Migrant Farmworker AIDS Education and Prevention Consortium. Seven programs provided AIDS education to migrant farmworkers in Michigan during the summer of 1989. Three of the programs included an evaluation survey, and one program implemented a special system for eliciting data from respondents with few or no literacy skills. MEHD collected evaluation data using a single-page questionnaire (interview guide) that had been designed in congress with the five member agencies of the Midwest Regional Migrant Farmworker AIDS Education and Prevention Consortium. Knowledge of AIDS was tested using a set of 10 core questions, to which a respondent could answer "Yes," "No," or "Don't Know."
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