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    ASSESMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE TOWARDS POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS OF HIV AMONG HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AT WOLKITE UNIVERSITY SPECIALIZED TEACHING HOSPITAL
    (WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2022-06) ABUBEKER SHIFA; RABIYAT RESHAD; MESERET MAREGU
    Background: infection with human immune deficiency virus is a serious public health problem costing the lives of many people including health workers. Hence, Ethiopia has developed guideline on the prevention of infection in the health institutions in July 2004 and also employed the use of post exposure prophylaxis since the implementation of free antiretroviral in January 2005. However in the country different studies shows that health professionals are limited knowledge and practice of PEP, and as there is no study conducted about PEP in our study area this study was conducted to assess knowledge, attitude and practice towards PEP use among health professionals working in WU STH.Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice towards post exposure prophylaxis of HIV/AIDS among health professionals at WUSTH,Wolkite Town,Gurage zone,SNNP regional state, Ethiopia 2022Method: A cross sectional study was carried out from May 10 to May 20 2022 on total of 247health professionals working in WUSTH. Data was collected using pre tested self-administered questionnaire and entered into EPI-data Version 6.4 and analyzed in SPSS version 21. software. Data was summarized using frequency, percentage, summary measures, graphs and tables and presented in descriptive way.Result: The studies revealed that from the total of 247 respondents, 106 (42.9%), of the respondents were found to have inadequate knowledge about post exposure prophylaxis for HIV. However the majority of respondent 182 (73.7%) had good attitude toward the PEP and, 145 (58.7%), had been exposed to HIV risk condition among those exposed, respondents only 12 (8.3%) took PEP but the rest 133 (91.7%) didn’t take PEP. From these exposed respondents that took PEP, 6 (50%) correctly started taking of PEP at exact initiation time, but the rest started after the recommended initiation time. Among those who took PEP, 11 (91.7%) completed taking the drug, however 1 (8.3%) didn’t complete the PEP regimen. Conclusion and recommendation:- the majority of respondents had knowledge about PEP and have favorable attitude towards PEP, but The practice of PEP after exposure is very low. Therefore, health care personnel need to improve their practice on PEP of HIV through different training program related to PEP