SOME DEMOGRAPHIC CORRELATES OF HIV AIDS-RELATED DISCRIMINATION/

In late 1991, a survey was made of HIV/AIDS-related discrimination in the Australian community. Structured telephone interviews were conduct ed with a random sample of 2,053 respondents. Twenty-one questions pro vided an index of expressed discrimination. Social contact with HIV-po sitive people was a significant predictor of low levels of discriminat ion. Other important predictors of (lower) levels of discrimination we re: social contact with gay men, education, sex, age, sexual identity, and sexual experience. Social contact with gay men was the single bes t predictor of positive attitudes rewards people with HIV/AIDS.