| dc.description.abstract | Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing ffCD is a secret dialog between
clients and provider in order to increase the capaciet in fucing stress and malcing
decision related to HIV. Counseling and testing HIV can be in/luenced by some
factors such as antenatal care, knowledge, attitude, self-eficacy, age, educatton,
rccupation, parity, distance to health facility, support from families/husbands,
support from midwives, and information meCia.
The study objective was to analyze Wrticipation of pregnant mothers for
testing and caunseling HIV. This studlt is a survey research with cross sectional
The population is all pregnant mothers at Kabanjahe health center'Karo
District with a sample of l8j pregnant mothers- Data were analyzed by Chi Square
and Multiple Logistic Regression.
The result showed that mostly pregnant mothers participated in HIV testing
and counseling (59.0%o). There is the infiuence of antenatal care (p : 0.001),
knowledge (p : 0.001), attitude (p : 0.001), age (p : 0.001), the distance to the
place of service (p : 0.008), farnily support (p : 0.00j), midwife support (p : 0.001)
ond media inforrnation (p : 0.A0q on the participation af pregnant mothers for HIV
testing and counseling The variables that most influenced on the participation of
pregnant mothers for HIV counselingand testing is the atritude with the value of the
B coeffcient : l,9.88.1.
It is necessary to moke an approach to pregnant mothers by prwiding
information directly to pregnant mathers individually or by groups to provide
cnvareness of the imprtance of participating in HIV testing and cotmseling as well as
trainingfor midwives, cadresand the wives of village heads to help deliver the right
infurmation about the introdaction of HIY disease and improve HIV testing and
counseling services outside the health center such as VCT mobile so that it can be
utilized by women who can not go to the health center | en_US |
