Knowledge and Perception of Voluntary Counseling, Testing and Treatment For HIV among Pregnant Women Attending Clinic at Bugando Medical Centre.
Salumu M. Mukayu CUHAS/MD/4002539/T/18
Knowledge and Perception of Voluntary Counseling, Testing and Treatment For HIV among Pregnant Women Attending Clinic at Bugando Medical Centre. - Mwanza, Tanzania: Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences [CUHAS – Bugando] : ©2023 - 37 Pages Includes References and Appendices
Abstract:
Background; HIV is considered to be one among the viral disease ever occurred, which causes the death to many people all over the world. It is among the dangerous disease which fight against the white blood cells and reduces the body protection against antigens. I am going to deal with the knowledge and perception of voluntary counseling, testing and treatment of HIV especially among pregnant women attending clinic at BMC.
Objectives: The study aimed to determine knowledge and perception of voluntary counseling, testing and treatment for HIV among pregnant women attending clinic at Bugando Medical Centre.
Methods: This was a hospital based cross sectional study involving women attending clinic at BMC. Number of participants enrolled were 100, determination of prevalence and associated factors were carried out through structured questionnaire Sociodemographic and other relevant information were collected. Data was entered into Microsoft Excel and then exported to Statistical Package for Social Science Software (SPSS version 25.0) for further analysis and presented in the percentages and table. The analysis of the strength of relationship between categorical variables was compared using Chi - square test .A p value of <0.05 is considered to be statistically significant.
Results: The study population had a median age of 28 years and mean age of 29.74 years. The results of the study found that most women attending clinic at Bugando Medical Centre had knowledge regarding voluntarily counseling, testing and treatment for HIV, most knew the ways by which HIV is transmitted and ways to prevent the acquisition of the disease, a chi-square test showed an association among those who knew about HIV together with those ready to test for HIV (X2 = 0.410, P = 0.04). Though most of them were ready to be tested, the significant number had negative perception regarding the consequences of living with HIV which would hinder voluntarily HIV testing and fear of stigmatization from the community.
Conclusion: Thus there is association between those who had knowledge about HIV together with those ready to test for HIV. The ministry of health together with NGOs should emphasize on voluntarily counseling, testing and treatment for HIV among Pregnant women. This will reduce the increase in HIV burden, mostly from mother to child transmission.
Phone: +255 28 298 3384 Fax: +255 28 298 3386 Email: vc@bugando.ac.tz Website: www.bugando.ac.tz
--Obstetrics and Gynecology --Community Medicine
Knowledge and Perception of Voluntary Counseling, Testing and Treatment For HIV among Pregnant Women Attending Clinic at Bugando Medical Centre. - Mwanza, Tanzania: Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences [CUHAS – Bugando] : ©2023 - 37 Pages Includes References and Appendices
Abstract:
Background; HIV is considered to be one among the viral disease ever occurred, which causes the death to many people all over the world. It is among the dangerous disease which fight against the white blood cells and reduces the body protection against antigens. I am going to deal with the knowledge and perception of voluntary counseling, testing and treatment of HIV especially among pregnant women attending clinic at BMC.
Objectives: The study aimed to determine knowledge and perception of voluntary counseling, testing and treatment for HIV among pregnant women attending clinic at Bugando Medical Centre.
Methods: This was a hospital based cross sectional study involving women attending clinic at BMC. Number of participants enrolled were 100, determination of prevalence and associated factors were carried out through structured questionnaire Sociodemographic and other relevant information were collected. Data was entered into Microsoft Excel and then exported to Statistical Package for Social Science Software (SPSS version 25.0) for further analysis and presented in the percentages and table. The analysis of the strength of relationship between categorical variables was compared using Chi - square test .A p value of <0.05 is considered to be statistically significant.
Results: The study population had a median age of 28 years and mean age of 29.74 years. The results of the study found that most women attending clinic at Bugando Medical Centre had knowledge regarding voluntarily counseling, testing and treatment for HIV, most knew the ways by which HIV is transmitted and ways to prevent the acquisition of the disease, a chi-square test showed an association among those who knew about HIV together with those ready to test for HIV (X2 = 0.410, P = 0.04). Though most of them were ready to be tested, the significant number had negative perception regarding the consequences of living with HIV which would hinder voluntarily HIV testing and fear of stigmatization from the community.
Conclusion: Thus there is association between those who had knowledge about HIV together with those ready to test for HIV. The ministry of health together with NGOs should emphasize on voluntarily counseling, testing and treatment for HIV among Pregnant women. This will reduce the increase in HIV burden, mostly from mother to child transmission.
Phone: +255 28 298 3384 Fax: +255 28 298 3386 Email: vc@bugando.ac.tz Website: www.bugando.ac.tz
--Obstetrics and Gynecology --Community Medicine