ABSTRACT
[Objective] To investigate the knowledge and discrimination of AIDS among freshmen in a university of Hefei City, so as to provide evidence for AIDS education and improve discrimination status.[Methods] A total of 317 students from a university of Hefei City were randomly selected using cluster sampling method and a questionnaire survey was conducted on them about AIDS knowledge and discrimination. [Results]The awareness rate of AIDS/HIV knowledge was 67.2％ in students. The total scores of AIDS discrimination knowledge attitude, emotional attitude and AIDS discrimination attitude were higher in the students without knowledge of AIDS than those with knowledge of AIDS, and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.05). In the discrimination behavior tendency, the score of the students in the knowledge group was higher than that in the no knowledge group, and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05). [Conclusion] The awareness of AIDS/HIV knowledge among freshmen in a university of Hefei City is good, but discrimination is widespread, and the degree of AIDS related knowledge directly affects the discrimination degree of AIDS discrimination. In future, we should strengthen the AIDS knowledge system education and pay more attention to the anti-discrimination propaganda intervention, especially the comprehensive intervention against behavior tendency.