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What percentage of American adults agree they would be afraid to be around a person with HIV for fear of getting infected?
32.4% of American adults agree they would be afraid to be around a person with HIV for fear of getting infected - about 32 in every 100, or 3 in 10. That is the figure published by the General Social Survey for 2024.
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Where this number comes from
- Survey
- General Social Survey
- What it measured
- GSS 2024 item HIVAFRAID (“Afraid to be around a person with HIV”), counting responses 3=somewhat agree, 4=strongly agree. Computed from NORC's public-use microdata with the survey weight WTSSNRPS and a Taylor-linearised standard error over the published design variables VSTRAT and VPSU; unweighted n = 1,932.
- Population
- U.S. adults aged 18 and over
- Year
- 2024
- 95% confidence interval
- 29.36% to 35.44% (derived from the published standard error)
NORC at the University of Chicago; public-use microdata, free for research and educational use. Percentages computed here, with attribution.. See the source data
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