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| Title: | Assessment of premarital HIV testing results and discordant rate and factors associated with them in public voluntary counseling and testing centers in Addis Ababa |
| Authors: | Girma, Temam |
| Advisors: | Professor Ahmed Ali (B.Sc., MPH, PhD) |
| Keywords: | public health |
| Copyright: | |
| Date Added: | 3-May-2012 |
| Publisher: | AAU |
| Abstract: | Introduction:
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Understanding
and
monitoring
the
prevalence
of
Human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among premarital clients and discordant rate
among premarital couples and applying specific interventions targeted at this group could
bring dual benefit as it prevents both heterosexual and vertical transmission of the
disease.
Objective: - The main objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of HIV and
discordant rate and factors associated with them among premarital voluntary counseling
and testing (VCT) clients in public VCT centers in Addis Ababa.
Methods: - A cross-sectional facility based study was conducted from March to April
2008. Seven public VCT centers were selected using simple random sampling. Then all
consecutive premarital VCT clients were interviewed until the required sample size was
attained using pre- tested structured questionnaire. Data were entered using Epi-info 2007
version 3.4.1 and analysis was carried out using SPSS-13 statistical packages.
Results:-Of 392 premarital VCT clients who participated in the study, 32 (8.2%) were
sero positive for HIV. HIV sero status was significantly associated with the number of
life time sexual partner (AOR=9.06(2.66-30.83)), previous history of HIV testing
(AOR=6.70(2.32-19.35)) and type of VCT service utilization (AOR=4.17(1.53-11.36)).
Out of 276(138 couples) who presented as couple, 6.5% were found to be sero
discordant, while concordant negative and concordant positive accounted for 92.0% and
1.4% respectively. Significantly higher rate of sero discordance was observed among
participants who had more than one life time sexual partner, (AOR=15.06(2.87-79.17))
and who lack history of previous HIV testing (AOR=13.91(3.08-62.91)). Both HIV sero
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positivity and discordance were relatively higher among those who previously
separated/divorced and widowed partners.
Conclusion and recommendation: - As considerable prevalence of sero positivity and
sero discordant among premarital couples were observed in this study, every effort to be
exerted to make premarital couples aware of their own and their partners’ sero status
before engagement was recommended. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2314 |
| Appears in: | Thesis - Public Health
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