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Depends on the school district. However, much of the public-health work now deprioritizes HIV prevention (on the theory that with modern cocktail drugs, it's now "merely" a chronic disease easily managed, rather than a killer) in favor of a broader conversation about unprotected sex in general given other sexually transmitted illnesses.Is knowledge about AIDS that common in the US, especially among teenagers? I'm genuinely curious. As a European in my early 20s, AIDS is never really talked about here. If you're lucky your school teaches you that it comes from HIV and that it makes you more susceptible to other diseases but that's about it.
It's a bit complicated in some places in the United States. In Michigan, for example, HIV status is legally "extra" protected under state law -- with drug use, behavior-health diagnoses and pregnancy -- from disclosure or targeting. So sometimes the people who'd benefit most from targeted education cannot be targeted because the relevant information cannot be used for that purpose.