A Sexual Health Program for Vietnamese Parents of Adolescents: A Preliminary Report on Changes in Parental Knowledge, Communication, and Self-Efficacy for Condom Use

摘要

As home to 60% of the world's population, an increasingly generalized HIV epidemic, and rapid social and economic changes, Asia remains a significant source of concern in relation to the HIV pandemic. In Vietnam, HIV prevalence among 15- to 49-year-olds increased from 0.27% to 0.44% with rates over 1% in Ho Chi Minh City and northern coastal regions between 2000 and 2010 (Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, 2010; Vietnamese Ministry of Health, General Department of' Preventive Medicine and HIV/AIDS Control, 2005).