Open Access<p>Prevalence of Voluntary Counseling and Testing Utilization and Its Associated Factors Among Merawi Preparatory School Students in Merawi Town, West Gojjam, Ethiopia</p>
Author(s) -
Daba Abdissa,
Mulat Tazebew,
Asfaw Gerbi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
hiv/aids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1179-1373
DOI - 10.2147/hiv.s281955
Subject(s) - voluntary counseling and testing , logistic regression , medicine , odds ratio , demography , stratified sampling , systematic sampling , family medicine , public health , cross sectional study , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , odds , environmental health , population , health facility , nursing , health services , pathology , sociology
HIV/AIDS is a major public health problem in many parts of the world. Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) is one of the essential strategies for its prevention and an entry point to AIDS care. Nevertheless, utilization of VCT is low in Ethiopia. Hence, the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of VCT utilization and associated factors among Merawi preparatory school students, West Gojjam, Ethiopia.