{"id": 1134872, "name": "Knowledge about HIV prevention in young people (15-24) - Sex: male", "unit": "%", "createdAt": "2026-01-23T17:07:52.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-01-23T17:07:52.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2000-2024", "datasetId": 7333, "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "knowledge_in_young_people__sex_male", "catalogPath": "grapher/health/2026-01-19/unaids/gam_sex#knowledge_in_young_people__sex_male", "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2015}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2024}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2000}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 15, "name": "Afghanistan", "code": "AFG"}, {"id": 16, "name": "Albania", "code": "ALB"}, {"id": 19, "name": "Angola", "code": "AGO"}, {"id": 20, "name": "Antigua and Barbuda", "code": "ATG"}, {"id": 25, "name": "Azerbaijan", "code": "AZE"}, {"id": 26, "name": "Bahamas", "code": "BHS"}, {"id": 28, "name": "Bangladesh", "code": "BGD"}, {"id": 29, "name": "Barbados", "code": "BRB"}, {"id": 30, "name": "Belarus", "code": "BLR"}, {"id": 31, "name": "Belize", "code": "BLZ"}, {"id": 32, "name": "Benin", "code": "BEN"}, {"id": 34, "name": "Bolivia", "code": "BOL"}, {"id": 35, "name": "Bosnia and Herzegovina", "code": "BIH"}, {"id": 36, "name": "Botswana", "code": "BWA"}, {"id": 39, "name": "Bulgaria", "code": "BGR"}, {"id": 40, "name": "Burkina Faso", "code": "BFA"}, {"id": 41, "name": "Burundi", "code": "BDI"}, {"id": 42, "name": "Cambodia", "code": "KHM"}, {"id": 43, "name": "Cameroon", "code": "CMR"}, {"id": 174, "name": "Central African Republic", "code": "CAF"}, {"id": 173, "name": "Chad", "code": "TCD"}, {"id": 170, "name": "Colombia", "code": "COL"}, {"id": 169, "name": "Comoros", "code": "COM"}, {"id": 168, "name": "Congo", "code": "COG"}, {"id": 143, "name": "Cote d'Ivoire", "code": "CIV"}, {"id": 164, "name": "Cuba", "code": "CUB"}, {"id": 167, "name": "Democratic Republic of Congo", "code": "COD"}, {"id": 154, "name": "Djibouti", "code": "DJI"}, {"id": 200, "name": "Dominica", "code": "DMA"}, {"id": 160, "name": "Dominican Republic", "code": "DOM"}, {"id": 225, "name": "East Timor", "code": "TLS"}, {"id": 65, "name": "Egypt", "code": "EGY"}, {"id": 259, "name": "El Salvador", "code": "SLV"}, {"id": 159, "name": "Equatorial Guinea", "code": "GNQ"}, {"id": 157, "name": "Eritrea", "code": "ERI"}, {"id": 78, "name": "Eswatini", "code": "SWZ"}, {"id": 158, "name": "Ethiopia", "code": "ETH"}, {"id": 153, "name": "Gabon", "code": "GAB"}, {"id": 151, "name": "Gambia", "code": "GMB"}, {"id": 150, "name": "Ghana", "code": "GHA"}, {"id": 206, "name": "Grenada", "code": "GRD"}, {"id": 148, "name": "Guatemala", "code": "GTM"}, {"id": 147, "name": "Guinea", "code": "GIN"}, {"id": 94, "name": "Guinea-Bissau", "code": "GNB"}, {"id": 146, "name": "Guyana", "code": "GUY"}, {"id": 145, "name": "Haiti", "code": "HTI"}, {"id": 139, "name": "Honduras", "code": "HND"}, {"id": 137, "name": "India", "code": "IND"}, {"id": 136, "name": "Indonesia", "code": "IDN"}, {"id": 135, "name": "Iran", "code": "IRN"}, {"id": 132, "name": "Jamaica", "code": "JAM"}, {"id": 130, "name": "Jordan", "code": "JOR"}, {"id": 131, "name": "Kazakhstan", "code": "KAZ"}, {"id": 129, "name": "Kenya", "code": "KEN"}, {"id": 126, "name": "Kyrgyzstan", "code": "KGZ"}, {"id": 125, "name": "Laos", "code": "LAO"}, {"id": 123, "name": "Lesotho", "code": "LSO"}, {"id": 121, "name": "Liberia", "code": "LBR"}, {"id": 119, "name": "Lithuania", "code": "LTU"}, {"id": 118, "name": "Madagascar", "code": "MDG"}, {"id": 117, "name": "Malawi", "code": "MWI"}, {"id": 116, "name": "Malaysia", "code": "MYS"}, {"id": 211, "name": "Maldives", "code": "MDV"}, {"id": 115, "name": "Mali", "code": "MLI"}, {"id": 114, "name": "Mauritania", "code": "MRT"}, {"id": 213, "name": "Mauritius", "code": "MUS"}, {"id": 111, "name": "Moldova", "code": "MDA"}, {"id": 112, "name": "Mongolia", "code": "MNG"}, {"id": 215, "name": "Montenegro", "code": "MNE"}, {"id": 110, "name": "Morocco", "code": "MAR"}, {"id": 109, "name": "Mozambique", "code": "MOZ"}, {"id": 142, "name": "Myanmar", "code": "MMR"}, {"id": 108, "name": "Namibia", "code": "NAM"}, {"id": 107, "name": "Nepal", "code": "NPL"}, {"id": 104, "name": "Niger", "code": "NER"}, {"id": 103, "name": "Nigeria", "code": "NGA"}, {"id": 101, "name": "Pakistan", "code": "PAK"}, {"id": 99, "name": "Papua New Guinea", "code": "PNG"}, {"id": 97, "name": "Peru", "code": "PER"}, {"id": 96, "name": "Philippines", "code": "PHL"}, {"id": 226, "name": "Qatar", "code": "QAT"}, {"id": 91, "name": "Rwanda", "code": "RWA"}, {"id": 227, "name": "Saint Kitts and Nevis", "code": "KNA"}, {"id": 232, "name": "Sao Tome and Principe", "code": "STP"}, {"id": 89, "name": "Senegal", "code": "SEN"}, {"id": 88, "name": "Serbia", "code": "SRB"}, {"id": 87, "name": "Sierra Leone", "code": "SLE"}, {"id": 81, "name": "South Africa", "code": "ZAF"}, {"id": 79, "name": "Sudan", "code": "SDN"}, {"id": 76, "name": "Tajikistan", "code": "TJK"}, {"id": 64, "name": "Tanzania", "code": "TZA"}, {"id": 75, "name": "Thailand", "code": "THA"}, {"id": 74, "name": "Togo", "code": "TGO"}, {"id": 235, "name": "Tonga", "code": "TON"}, {"id": 68, "name": "Uganda", "code": "UGA"}, {"id": 67, "name": "Ukraine", "code": "UKR"}, {"id": 84, "name": "Vietnam", "code": "VNM"}, {"id": 60, "name": "Zambia", "code": "ZMB"}, {"id": 80, "name": "Zimbabwe", "code": "ZWE"}]}}, "descriptionShort": "Percentage of young males aged 15-24 who correctly identify both ways of preventing the sexual transmission of HIV and reject major misconceptions about HIV transmission.", "descriptionFromProducer": "This indicator measures the percentage of respondents that answered \"YES\" to all the responses below:\n\n1. Can the risk of HIV transmission be reduced by having sex with only one uninfected partner who has no other partners?\n2. Can a person reduce the risk of getting HIV by using a condom every time they have sex?\n3. Can a healthy-looking person have HIV?\n4. Can a person get HIV from mosquito bites?\n5. Can a person get HIV by sharing food with someone who is infected?\n\nThe first three questions should not be altered. Questions 4 and 5 ask about local misconceptions and may be replaced by the most common misconceptions in your country. Examples include: \u201cCan a person get HIV by hugging or shaking hands with a person who is infected?\u201d and \u201cCan a person get HIV through supernatural means?\u201d\n\nThose who have never heard of HIV and AIDS should be excluded from the numerator but included in the denominator. An answer of \u201cdon't know\u201d should be recorded as an incorrect answer.\n\nScores for each of the individual questions (based on the same denominator) are required as well as the score for the composite indicator.", "type": "float", "grapherConfigIdETL": "019bebd3-9bdf-7153-8fa7-0b65d8ac8dfd", "datasetName": "Global AIDS Update", "datasetVersion": "2026-01-19", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "%"}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "minor", "presentation": {"titlePublic": "Knowledge about HIV prevention by young males", "topicTagsLinks": ["HIV/AIDS"]}, "descriptionKey": ["The ongoing spread of HIV is largely driven by sexual transmission among young people. Comprehensive knowledge about HIV and AIDS is essential for adopting behaviors that reduce the risk of transmission."], "origins": [{"id": 10879, "title": "Global AIDS Update, Global Aids Monitoring", "description": "GAM is a standardized reporting framework coordinated by UNAIDS in which countries report HIV-related data every year. The data are used to assess progress toward global targets (currently the 95\u201395\u201395 targets and post-2025 goals).\n\nThe indicators and questions in this document are designed for use by national AIDS programmes and partners to assess the state of a country's HIV and AIDS response, and to measure progress towards achieving national HIV targets. Countries are encouraged to integrate these indicators and questions into their ongoing monitoring efforts and to report comprehensive national data through the Global AIDS Monitoring (GAM) process. In this way they will contribute to improving understanding of the global response to the HIV epidemic, including progress that has been made towards achieving the commitments and global targets set out in the new United Nations Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Ending Inequalities and Getting on Track to End AIDS by 2030, adopted in June 2021, and the linked Sustainable Development Goals.", "producer": "Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS", "citationFull": "AIDS, crisis and the power to transform: UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2025. Geneva: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; 2025. 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The indicators included extend beyond traditional Global AIDS Monitoring.\n\nData on stigma and discrimination, particularly in the health service sector, and the legal environment were extracted and mapped, for example, to better capture some of the structural challenges in mounting effective responses for key populations communities.", "producer": "Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS", "citationFull": "AIDS, crisis and the power to transform: UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2025. Geneva: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; 2025. Full report: https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/documents/2025/2025-global-aids-update-summary", "attributionShort": "UNAIDS", "urlMain": "https://aidsinfo.unaids.org/dataset", "urlDownload": "https://aidsinfo.unaids.org/documents/KPAtlasDB_2025_en.zip", "dateAccessed": "2026-01-19", "datePublished": "2026-01-15", "license": {"url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo/", "name": "CC BY 3.0"}}]}