Occupational Medicine & Health Affairs
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Research Article

Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice towards post exposure prophylaxis for HIV among health care professionals in Lahore

¹Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore, Pakistan

²Department of Human Nutrition, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

*Corresponding Author:

Amjad Khan
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
University of Veterinary and Animal
Sciences Lahore, Pakistan
Tel: +923154546715
E-mail: doctor_khan77@yahoo.com

Received date: July 04, 2015 Accepted date: July 29, 2015 Published date: August 15, 2015

Citation: Singh G, Din Ahmad MUD, Muneer S, Sabah NU, Baig W, et al. (2015) Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Post Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV among Health Care Professionals in Lahore. Occup Med Health Aff 3:208. doi: 10.4172/2329-6879.1000208

Copyright: © 2015 Singh G, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

HIV infections in health care workers have become a major health problem especially in developing countries in these days. Most in poor resource setting HCWs dealing with large number of HIV infected patients. This situation raises the need for post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for HIV exposed group really important. Considering this a cross sectional survey was conducted in general and governmental hospitals of district Lahore Pakistan to asses Knowledge, attitude and practice of HCWs regarding PEP for HIV. Response regarding Knowledge, attitude and practice of 609 HCWs were entered on a predesigned self explanatory questionnaire. Descriptive analysis of the data showed that almost half of the HCWs have never heard about PEP. 68% of HCWs were of the opinion that PEP guidelines should not be listed in the working area or they responded with no idea regarding PEP. A good number of HCWs almost 47.2% believed PEP non protective against HIV or either did not have knowledge about it. Significant proportion (>50%) of the respondents were found having in adequate knowledge and improper attitude towards PEP. 35.3% of the respondents were placed on PEP after exposure while rest of the HCWs were not or either did not have idea about PEP. It was concluded that knowledge and attitude of HCWs about HIV for PEP was just satisfactory, consequently formal training for HCWs about PEP for HIV is recommended.

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