摘要：Summary (HIV prevention and adolescents: a sample survey on Italian high-school students). - This article
resulted from a survey carried out by some researchers of the Telefono Verde AIDS (TVA- National AIDS Help-
Line) of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, with the collaboration of some colleagues of the Segreteria per le
Attività Culturali. It is also a summary of strategies of intervention against HIV/AIDS for young people
implemented by the Italian Ministry of Health. The study was developed within the context of the workshops
on HIV/AIDS education carried out since 1995 by some researchers of TVA. These workshops fall within some
other initiatives arranged by the Segreteria per le Attività Culturali for the diffusion of scientific and
technological information. Our study aimed at assessing the level of knowledge on HIV/AIDS among some
different high-school students. Data processing points out a widespread and quite good level of knowledge on
HIV/AIDS in general and particularly on ways of transmission and prevention measures. Results obtained could
not be generalized because the sample involved in the survey represented a privileged target, already sensitive
to the issues concerning HIV infection and AIDS dealt with in the context of specific teaching programmes.
关键词：Key words: adolescence, HIV infection, AIDS, prevention, information.
