National Survey of African Americans on HIV/AIDS

1.	My first question is... What do you think is the most urgent health problem facing this nation today? (Open-end. Do not read answer categories. Wait for reply before probe) Is there another health problem you think is almost as urgent?

				----12/95----
General Public	African American			General Public	African American
38	52		AIDS	44	56
38	56		Cancer	27	27
16	13		Heart	11	13
10	4		Health care -- cost	16	7
9	4		Health insurance/The uninsured	{111	7
5	3		Health care -- access
5	6		Drugs	4	6
3	1		Smoking/Cigarettes	na2	na
2	*3		Elderly	4	3
2	1		Excess weight/Obesity	na	na
2	3		Diabetes	na	na
14	10		Other	17	17
8	8		Don't know/Refused	8	10

Total exceeds 100% due to multiple responses.

2.	Now I'd like you to think about the way the problem of AIDS is affecting this country today. Do you think the problem of AIDS is about the same as it has been, that the country is making progress in this area, or that the country is losing ground? Based on form 1 respondents.

				----12/95----
General Public	African American			General Public	African American
14	12		About the same	15	16
52	45		Country making progress	32	30
27	36		Country losing ground	48	51
7	7		Don't know/Refused	5	3
100	100			100	100

3.	Thinking about the way AIDS is affecting your local community today, is the problem of AIDS about the same as it has been, is your community making progress, is your community losing ground, or has AIDS never been a problem in your community? Based on form 1 respondents

				----12/95----
General Public	African American			General Public	African American
19	20		About the same	23	24
14	25		Community making progress	11	9
11	18		Community losing ground	18	23
41	24		Never been a problem	38	33
15	13		Don't know/Refused	10	11
100	100			100	100

4.	Now I'd like you to think about the way the problem of AIDS is affecting this country today. Do you think AIDS is a more urgent problem for the country than it was a few years ago, is it a less urgent problem, or is it about as urgent as it was? Based on form 2 respondents

General Public	African American
48	58		More urgent
12	12		Less urgent
38	29		About as urgent
2	1		Don't know/Refused
100	100

5.

Thinking about the way the problem of AIDS is affecting your local community today, do you think AIDS is a more urgent problem for your community than it was a few years ago, is it a less urgent problem, is it about as urgent as it was, or has AIDS never been a problem in your community? Based on form 2 respondents

General Public	African American
25	44		More urgent
9	12		Less urgent
28	20		About as urgent
25	17		Never been a problem
13	7		Don't know/Refused
100	100

6.	How serious a problem do you think AIDS is for people you know? For people you know, do you think AIDS is...(Read)

				----12/95----
General Public	African American			General Public	African American
34	56		A very serious problem	43	61
19	16		A somewhat serious problem	17	12
17	9		Not too serious a problem, or	15	12
25	12		Not a serious problem at all?	22	13
5	7		Don't know/Refused	3	2
100	100			100	100

7.	Bearing in mind the different ways people can be infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS--how concerned are you, personally, about becoming infected with HIV? Are you... (Read)

				----12/95----
General Public	African American			General Public	African American
24	50		Very concerned	22	55
17	16		Somewhat concerned	18	16
21	16		Not too concerned, or	22	15
38	17		Not at all concerned?	38	14
*	1		Don't know/Refused	*	*
100	100			100	100

8.	Are you more concerned about becoming infected with HIV than you were a few years ago, less concerned, or about as concerned?

General Public	African American
27	40		More concerned
24	25		Less concerned
47	33		About as concerned
2	2		Don't know/Refused
100	100

9.	Do you, yourself, have any sons or daughters aged 21 years or younger?

General Public	African American
43	46		Yes
57	54		No
*	0		Don't know/Refused
100	100

10.	How concerned are you about a son or daughter becoming infected with HIV? Are you...(Read) Based on parents of children aged 21 or younger

				----12/95----
General Public	African American			General Public	African American
52	68		Very concerned	53	70
21	13		Somewhat concerned	24	12
16	10		Not too concerned, or	10	12
11	9		Not at all concerned?	11	6
*	*		Don't know/Refused	2	0
100 (541)4	100 (377)			100 (666)	100 (178)

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1	The 1995 results for "health insurance/the uninsured" include mentions about "health care - access."
2	"na" indicates that comparable results are not available.
3	An asterisk indicates a value of less than 1%.
4	Numbers in parentheses are the number of interviews for the given population, on the given question

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