and Behavior of Pregnant Women for HIV Test In PITC Mobile Services at Bandung City

Marlina, Cherly and Widiawati, Ida and Yulinda, - and Suryati, Saur (2020) and Behavior of Pregnant Women for HIV Test In PITC Mobile Services at Bandung City. and Behavior of Pregnant Women for HIV Test In PITC Mobile Services at Bandung City, - (-). pp. 4-7. ISSN -

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Abstract

The Ministry of Health has developed of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) test service with the application of Provider Initiated Testing and Counseling (PITC) since 2010 which is carried out as part of Maternal and Child Health services where HIV testing is offered by service officers to pregnant women who access services in health facility. However, PITC services have not been optimally utilized by pregnant women. The report from the Ministry of Health in 2018 that the pregnant women who have done for HIV testing and detected as having sexually transmitted infections (STis) there were 8,862 cases of pregnant women from 147,202. The aim of the study was to analyze the relationship comprehensive knowledge with the behavior of HIV testing in the PITC program at Bandung City. Method : The method of cross sectional study with the amount of sample 76 respondents. Analysis with chi-square test to collect data using a questionnaire. Result: The research results showed that variable of knowledge and history of STis are related significantly with HIV testing behavior in PICT services with p value (<0.05). Respondents who had never experienced STI had chance 3.6 times not to take an HIV test while respondents who had knowledge less get a chance 14.7 chance of not taking an HIV test. Conclusion : It is suggested that health workers conducting PITC in ANC services provide health information I education both individually and in groups so that respondents have good knowledge before taking an HIV test. Keywords: HIV testing, PITC, knowledge

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