Risk Factors of HIV Among Voluntary Counseling and Testing Centers Clients, Elgenina Town, West Darfur, Sudan. - Risk Factors of HIV Among Voluntary Counseling and Testing Centers Clients, Elgenina Town, West Darfur, Sudan. - Open Access Pub

This study was conducted in two (VCTs) at Elgenina town, the capital of West Darfur State in Sudan in period from November 2010 to February 2011, the study included all people attending VCTs in Elgeniena town for voluntary checking one hundred and fifty clients who visited the (VCT) centers and volunteered were included in this study, nonprobability sample, 150 volunteers was taken and covered all ages, One ml of blood was taken from each of the study sample and tested by rapid Immune Chromatographic (ICT) for HIV, a structured questionnaire was designed and the interviewed after a written consent to participate in the study was signed, data was analyzed using the SPSS statistical programmer and for possible association between study variables, the Chi square test was used, the study showed that 35 volunteers (23.33%) were positives, of whom 54.3% 19 were males. People having more than one sex partner were high 63.6% with statistically significant factor of getting infection (P.value = 0.00). Also, practicing unsafe sex were 5.2% another major risky (P.value = 0.00). Among the HIV positive cases 34.3% were drug users, compared to 20.9% from the HIV negatives (p. value = 0.10). There is no relation between education level and infection with HIV (p .value = 0.154). Forty two percent of the participants were single, 30% married, 10% divorced, 7.3% widows and 10.7% were separate DOI10.14302/issn.2324-7339.jcrhap-18-2533 As the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic enters the third decade, the spread of HIV is still at a frightening pace. Globally, about 14,000 new infections were reported daily in 2005. A total of 33.2 million (30.6 million – 36.1millionestemated) people are living with HIV in 2007. This figure includes the estimated 2.5 million (1.4 million – 3.6 million) adults and 0,42million (0.32 – 0.54 million) children under 15 years who were newly infected with HIV in 2007 1. Study conducted in Sudan the main result is. Most of the respondents were knowledgeable about the true transmission modes for AIDS virus very few respondents knew someone infected with AIDS (4.5%), died of AIDS (8.1%), accepted to live with someone infected with AIDS (4.7%) or to work with someone infected with AIDS (2.1%). Regarding sexual behavior, 96.5% had reported their first sexual experience between 20 and 30 years, with 85.7% reporting one or two partners, and only 1.8% reported using condom. Multivariate logistic regression showed that circumcision, religion, marital status, age at first sex, number of sexual partners, education level, and misconception