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Assessment of knowledge and acceptability of HIV self-testing among students of selected universities in southwest Nigeria: an online cross-sectional study

INTRODUCTION: in Nigeria, it was estimated that 1.9 million people were living with HIV of which 130,000 people were newly infected with HIV. HIV self-testing would potentially increase access to HIV testing for people to know their status, get diagnosed, and initiate treatment as soon as possible....

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Autores principales: Babatunde, Abdulhammed Opeyemi, Agboola, Progress, Babatunde, Yusuf, Ilesanmi, Esther Bosede, Ayodele, Habibllah, Ezechi, Oliver Chukwujekwu
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Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9816886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36660087
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.43.94.31741
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author Babatunde, Abdulhammed Opeyemi
Agboola, Progress
Babatunde, Yusuf
Ilesanmi, Esther Bosede
Ayodele, Habibllah
Ezechi, Oliver Chukwujekwu
author_facet Babatunde, Abdulhammed Opeyemi
Agboola, Progress
Babatunde, Yusuf
Ilesanmi, Esther Bosede
Ayodele, Habibllah
Ezechi, Oliver Chukwujekwu
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description INTRODUCTION: in Nigeria, it was estimated that 1.9 million people were living with HIV of which 130,000 people were newly infected with HIV. HIV self-testing would potentially increase access to HIV testing for people to know their status, get diagnosed, and initiate treatment as soon as possible. Our study aims to assess the knowledge of HIV Self-Testing (HIVST) and the acceptability of this youth-friendly approach among students in southwest Nigeria online. METHODS: a cross-sectional study was conducted among bona fide undergraduate students (2019/2020 session) of two popular tertiary institutions in southwest Nigeria. An online standardized self-administered questionnaire was administered using Google Forms. Microsoft Excel and IBM SPSS statistics were used for tabulation and statistical data analysis. The Chi-Square test was conducted using a P value of 0.05 to determine the level of significance. RESULTS: of the 155 students that participated in the study, 82 (52.9%) were male. Most of the respondents (65.2%) were studying medicine and other health-related courses. The mean knowledge of HIVST among respondents was slightly above average. Respondents studying medical and other health-related courses showed a slightly better level of knowledge than others although not statistically significant (P = 0.222). 76.1% of respondents had never used the HIVST option before and 62.6% are willing to use it sometimes in the future. CONCLUSION: to achieve the UNAIDS 95-95-95 fast-track targets in Nigeria by 2030, there is a need to promote sexual and reproductive health education and increase awareness and accessibility of HIVST to youths.
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spelling pubmed-98168862023-01-18 Assessment of knowledge and acceptability of HIV self-testing among students of selected universities in southwest Nigeria: an online cross-sectional study Babatunde, Abdulhammed Opeyemi Agboola, Progress Babatunde, Yusuf Ilesanmi, Esther Bosede Ayodele, Habibllah Ezechi, Oliver Chukwujekwu Pan Afr Med J Research INTRODUCTION: in Nigeria, it was estimated that 1.9 million people were living with HIV of which 130,000 people were newly infected with HIV. HIV self-testing would potentially increase access to HIV testing for people to know their status, get diagnosed, and initiate treatment as soon as possible. Our study aims to assess the knowledge of HIV Self-Testing (HIVST) and the acceptability of this youth-friendly approach among students in southwest Nigeria online. METHODS: a cross-sectional study was conducted among bona fide undergraduate students (2019/2020 session) of two popular tertiary institutions in southwest Nigeria. An online standardized self-administered questionnaire was administered using Google Forms. Microsoft Excel and IBM SPSS statistics were used for tabulation and statistical data analysis. The Chi-Square test was conducted using a P value of 0.05 to determine the level of significance. RESULTS: of the 155 students that participated in the study, 82 (52.9%) were male. Most of the respondents (65.2%) were studying medicine and other health-related courses. The mean knowledge of HIVST among respondents was slightly above average. Respondents studying medical and other health-related courses showed a slightly better level of knowledge than others although not statistically significant (P = 0.222). 76.1% of respondents had never used the HIVST option before and 62.6% are willing to use it sometimes in the future. CONCLUSION: to achieve the UNAIDS 95-95-95 fast-track targets in Nigeria by 2030, there is a need to promote sexual and reproductive health education and increase awareness and accessibility of HIVST to youths. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9816886/ /pubmed/36660087 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.43.94.31741 Text en Copyright: Abdulhammed Opeyemi Babatunde et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Babatunde, Abdulhammed Opeyemi
Agboola, Progress
Babatunde, Yusuf
Ilesanmi, Esther Bosede
Ayodele, Habibllah
Ezechi, Oliver Chukwujekwu
Assessment of knowledge and acceptability of HIV self-testing among students of selected universities in southwest Nigeria: an online cross-sectional study
title Assessment of knowledge and acceptability of HIV self-testing among students of selected universities in southwest Nigeria: an online cross-sectional study
title_full Assessment of knowledge and acceptability of HIV self-testing among students of selected universities in southwest Nigeria: an online cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Assessment of knowledge and acceptability of HIV self-testing among students of selected universities in southwest Nigeria: an online cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Assessment of knowledge and acceptability of HIV self-testing among students of selected universities in southwest Nigeria: an online cross-sectional study
title_short Assessment of knowledge and acceptability of HIV self-testing among students of selected universities in southwest Nigeria: an online cross-sectional study
title_sort assessment of knowledge and acceptability of hiv self-testing among students of selected universities in southwest nigeria: an online cross-sectional study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9816886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36660087
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.43.94.31741
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