Assessment of Voluntary Counseling and Testing Utilization among Preparatory Students in Hawassa Town, SNNPR, Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Enquoselassie, Fikre (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fujaga, Sisaye | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-02T07:05:54Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-05T14:54:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-10-02T07:05:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-05T14:54:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background:- HIV voluntary counseling and testing is an entry point to both prevention and treatment. Adolescents have to know their HIV sero status to enable them to seek appropriate treatment as well as to enable them to choose prevention strategies and adopt safe sexual behavior. For effective service delivery in an area and the country recent and local information is very important. Objective:-Assessment of VCT utilization among preparatory students in Hawassa town. Method:- The study was A cross-sectional quantitative study a total of 570 preparatory students were selected using a two-stage sampling proportional to size method. Result:- Five hundred thirty (95.8%) of the study participants had good knowledge and attitude toward HIV/AIDS and VCT. Two hundred twenty three (40.3%) had VCT in the past 70(12.6%) females and 153(27.7%) males. With regard to service provision the majority preferred health professionals, integrated VCT center followed by self standing, face to face and weekends followed by after working hour as service provider, scheme, way to get HIV test result and convenient time. The finding showed that, not having history of previous sexual practice and self standing VCT service scheme preference had significant positive-associations while sidama in ethnic and married had significant negative- associations with VCT utilization. Concussions:- The finding reflects knowledge-practice gap and IEC/BCC should be provided in a way that inspire preparatory students, make them perceive the benefits and drive them to practice. It is also advisable to provide voluntary HIV counseling and testing services in self standing-VCT–center and youth-center and in extra regular working hours (weekends and after working hour). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/12370 | |
| dc.publisher | Addis Abeba Universty | en_US |
| dc.subject | Assessment of Voluntary Counseling | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessment of Voluntary Counseling and Testing Utilization among Preparatory Students in Hawassa Town, SNNPR, Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |