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HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Knowledge and Uptake Among Undergraduate Students of Rivers State University

Goayii Daddy Lekia, Edet Clement,Anthony ike Wegbom

Abstract

The study used cross sectional design and 375 respondents were selected from the population, data were exported into IBM SPSS statistics 26 for analysis, tables, bar graphs and pie charts have been used to categorize and analyze data according to research objective. I used simple random sampling technique by balloting in selecting some faculties, and 8 faculties out of the 13 faculties in the university were selected, one department was balloted from each of the 8 selected faculties by simple random technique, then I balloted by simple random technique to select the student’s academic year, and year one and year two class levels were selected for the study by balloting, finally I applied to the university ICT Department to obtain the total number of year one and year two class level’s undergraduate population, I selected respondents for the study by simple random sampling technique using balloting from each department, then I contacted the class representatives for details of each of the selected respondent, after I interfaced with the class representatives from each of the departments, I received their phone numbers as contact details, I then had an interface with each of the respondents from all the selected department and they were sensitized on HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for understanding of the set questions. Thereafter the scripted questionnaire on kobo toolbox was administered via WhatsApp for the respondent to answer. Only 26.7% of the population have heard about HIV PrEP, in conclusion the study finds out low awareness of HIV PrEP.

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