Knowledge Attitude Towards Practicing Of Voluntary Hiv Counseling And Testing And The Determinants Of Vct Uptake A Case Study In Debrebirhan Teachers Training College

HIV/AIDS is highly affecting the young and economically active segment of thernpopulation. Effective behavioral change communication (BCC) strategies need to berndesigned to rescue the future development force of the nation. Determination of thernknowledge and attitude underlying the safe and unsafe behavior is instrumental inrnfacilitating the behavioral change by keeping the leverage of efforts focused to thernrelevant areas. This study therefore, assessed the knowledge, attitude, and practice ofrnDebre-Birhan Teachers Training College Students about Voluntary HIV Counselling andrnTesting.rnData on knowledge, attitude, and practice of voluntary counselling, and testing, andrnsocio-demographic variables like age, sex ….etc of students were collected using arnstructured self administered Amharic version questionnaire. Prior to data collectionrnmass and individual consent was obtained after thorough explanations of the procedure.rnThe data were cleaned, edited and entered into a computer and analyzed by the binaryrnlogistic regression model and chi-square one-at-a time association with the applicationrnof SPSS for windows version 13.0. A number of potential variables for inclusion in thernbinary and multivariate analyses are identified. Statistical tests at 0.05 level ofrnsignificance were employed wherever appropriate. The study showed that overall 192rn(82.40%) of the respondents have good knowledge and over 168 (75.68%) have favorablernattitude towards Voluntary HIV Counselling and Testing (VCT). Almost 82 (35.19%) ofrnthe respondents have taken VCT practically. The majority of respondents 214 (91.85%)rndid not perceive themselves at risk of HIV infection even if they are indulged in unsafernsexual practice. This paper also seeks to identify the major determinants/factors thatrnmotivates students to voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT) and to examine howrnthese determinants are associated with VC. The results suggest that Attitude towardsrnVCT, knowledge of HIV transmission and prevention, knowledge of VCT are the onlyrnimportant factors significantly affecting student’s practice of HIV testing (VCT) whereasrnperceived confidentiality of VCT service and site consider as a barrier in VCT uptake ofrnstudents

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