Knowledge of HIV infection is low, according to a new survey of knowledge about HIV in the workplace made for the Norwegian Directorate of Health (Helsedirektoratet).
As soon as you are open about the disease, you lose control. When people still believe that it is dangerous to keep an HIV positive in hand, so you don’t know what can be said about you, says Jakob Hermansen.
A new survey by the Norwegian Directorate of Health confirms it Hermansen says, and almost half of those questioned in the survey said they would be reluctant to have close contact with an HIV positive colleague.
Linda Granlund, Division Director in the Norwegian Directorate of Health says many are holding an unfounded fear, and that it is particularly young and elderly people who do not know enough about HIV.
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