Knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) for HIV among nursing students in Zambia | Zendy

Luyando Hamukang’andu | Zendy; Lila C. Fleming | Zendy; Felix Silwimba | Zendy; Kathryn H. Jacobsen | Zendy

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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) for HIV among nursing students in Zambia

Author(s) -

Luyando Hamukang’andu,

Lila C. Fleming,

Felix Silwimba,

Kathryn H. Jacobsen

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

sierra leone journal of biomedical research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2219-3170

pISSN - 2076-6270

DOI - 10.4314/sljbr.v8i2.1

Subject(s) - voluntary counseling and testing , confidentiality , stigma (botany) , nursing , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , sierra leone , turnover , family medicine , psychology , environmental health , health services , psychiatry , population , political science , socioeconomics , sociology , management , health facility , law , economics

Access to voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) services has become an important tool in the treatment and prevention of HIV infection. A cross-sectional knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) study was conducted with 50 nursing students in Zambia. All students were aware of where to go for VCT, and 80% had reported using VCT services. However, the participants expressed concerns about privacy and confidentiality related to testing, with most students preferring to seek future VCT at a facility far from their workplace. This ongoing fear of stigma associated with HIV testing was similar to the findings of a recent KAP study conducted among young adults in Bo, Sierra Leone.

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