Why do you think many people are uninformed about HIV infection and AIDS?

the main reason i think is that those who have it,should come forward to tell how it is transmitted or how to protect urself from it.
but as soon as ppl come to know that one person has aids immediately that person is treated in a very different way and has to go thru many mental stress,facing all the ill treatment they get .
so those who r infected try to hide it from the world...
i think this is the main reason....

many are informed they just choose not to take heed. also many areas in poor countries do not have the resources that many affluent countries do.

Because it hasn't yet directly affected their life.

Sad isn't it?

Because, for the most part, people are idiots. I mean, come on...ask any idiot on the street to point out Iraq on a map of the world....or ask him/her who was president of the USA when we dropped the Atom Bomb.

Are you really surprised that most people are ill-informed?

i don't know, you would think everyone knew about it, since so many people have it nowadays.

People are naturally in denial when it comes to these sort of situations. Having sex for the first time can put the notion of, "I'm new to this, I've never done it before, I can't get an STD." That maybe true, but their partner might have been sexually active before them.

HIV/AIDS is a disease that is slowly taking over America. Everybody, even if just performing/receiving oral sex, should get tested. We need to stop. I'm a teenager, and I am afraid that I may marry a man that is not a virgin.

No glove, no love!

I'm not sure, but there is much information that seems to have been held out of the public eye.
There are things we are still learning about it and it's to bad this disease will continue to spread.

They might information for people that they trust and it could be misinformation. A lot of people have received information years ago and have never had any updated information. Even those of us that teach people about the infection, how people contract HIV and new medical information don't keep on educating ourselves. People working in the field need years updates and need to weekly read the newest information available to them.