Introduction: Sexually transmitted infections are a major public health problem worldwide. They are the most common complication of risky sexual behaviour, most often because of incorrectly achieved information and lack of knowledge about sexuality and sexual health during adolescence. Purpose: We wanted to evaluate the knowledge and awareness of nursing and midwifery students about two sexually transmitted infections: HIVAIDS and gonorrhea. We also wanted to find out where did the students the get information about sexually transmitted infections, if they can recognize them, know the prevention and what opinion do they have on sex education and the role of a nurse and midwife on this area. Methods: Descriptive method of work was used. The survey questionnaire was used for collecting data that was made with the help of reading current foreign literature. The survey was conducted through the EnKlikAnketa web portal. The sample included 261 1. and 3. grade nursing and midwifery students. We got permission from the board of Health faculty before we started the interviewing. The interviewing was anonymous and voluntary. The results were presented with basic descriptive statistics and with graphs and tables. Results: Most of the interviewees got information about sexuality and sexually transmitted infections in schools 92 % and on the internet 73 %. They were good at recognizing sexually transmitted infections, ways of transmitting and the prevention of them. They didn’t know so much about first signs and symptoms of HIVAIDS infections and complications. Only 30 % of the interviewees knew that gonorrhoea doesn’t always show with characteristic signs and symptoms. 35 % of the interviewees thinks that they don’t have enough information about reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections and safe sex. Discussion and conclusion: From the gathered information, we can conclude that the interviewees know the sexually transmitted infections well. Somewhat worse results were at signs and symptoms and complications of infections. According to sources of information, we suggest keeping sex education in primary and secondary schools performed by professional qualified teachers. Making professional web pages, forums and applications in which the professional healthcare participate would be good. It’s important to continuously improving nurses and midwifes, because only that way they can give qualitative sex education. We suggest new researches on bigger samples and possible comparisons before and after sex education.
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