Nigerian dental technology students and human immunodeficiency virus infection: Knowledge, misconceptions and willingness to care

Azodo, CC; Omili, MA; Akeredolu, Patricia Adetokunbo

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“…Fifty one included studies assessed the awareness of 1,235,811 Africans in regard to HIV in total of 35 countries, eleven studies were conducted in Nigeria [14,16,83,17,18,23,38,48,60,63,81] , nine in South Africa [24,27,29,34,37,42,46,82,84] , five in each of Ghana [19,31,65,66,68] and Ethiopia [21,73,77,78,80] , four in Uganda [13,55,72,75] , three in Mozambique [22,26,30] , two in each of Namibia [45,76] and Cameroon [59,67] , one in each of Congo [25] , Sudan [33] , Senegal [39] , Morocco [47] , Gambia [50] , Tanzania [53] , Madagascar [71] and Egypt [74] while a study provided awareness prevalence in 33 countries [8] . The conduction of the studies ranged from 2010 to 2017.…”

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“…Eleven included studies in regard to HIV were conducted among Nigerians representing a total population of 98,279 participants; three studies were conducted in Oyo State [14,16,63] and one in each of Osun State [17] , Ekiti State [18] , Enugu State [23] , Kano State [48] , Sokoto State [81] and Ogun State [60] . Two studies were nationally representative and participants were from different States [38,83] .…”

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Knowledge Gaps of STIs in Africa; Systematic review

Suluiman¹,

SalahEldin

Idris

et al. 2019

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30Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) are ambiguous burden of tremendous health, social and 31 economic consequences, The current systematic review was conducted in order to determine 32 awareness and knowledge of Africans of sexually transmitted infections, not only concerning 33 HIV/AIDS, but also other STIs such as, gonorrhea, syphilis, HBV, HCV and HPV. A systematic 34 review of the literature was conducted, studies were retrieved and selected after they fulfilled the 35 inclusion criteria and passed the assessment procedure. related data was extracted, quantitative 36 analysis was conducted among participants who responded to questions related to HIV, HBV, HCV, 37 HPV or STIs knowledge, sensitivity analysis as well as subgroup analysis were also conducted. 38 Seventy four articles addressing knowledge among 35 African countries were included and 136 39 questions were analyzed and synthesized. The question Using condom will reduce HIV 40 transmission?'' was answered by 1,799,374 Africans in 35 countries, 66.82% [95% Cl; 62.65, 70.98] 41 answered yes. While the question ''Is sexual contact a possible route of HBV transmission?'' was 42 answered by 7,490 participants in 5 countries; 42.58% [95% Cl; 20.45, 64.71] answered yes. The 43 differences observed among populations are highlighting the possibility for containment and control 44 by directing light toward specific populations or countries as well as addressing specific awareness 45 knowledge to ensure that the general as well as the related specific preventive awareness knowledge 46 is improved. 47 Introduction 50 Sexually transmitted Infections (STIs) are ambiguous burden of tremendous health, social and 51 economic consequences. Most of them are hidden because many people may feel stigmatized when 52 addressing them. Moreover, the committee on prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases 53 in USA estimated that the annual costs of selected major STDs are approximately $10 billion or, if 54 sexually transmitted HIV is included, $17 billion [1] . 55 According to UNAIDS; almost 37 million people globally were living with HIV in 2017, sub-Saharan 56 Africa accounted for 66% of the cases, 68% of new adult HIV infections, 92% of new infections in 57 children and 72% of all AIDS-related deaths. Earlier in 2009, Swaziland topped the world's HIV 3 58epidemic countries with a 26% prevalence among adults, while South Africa was the country with the 59 world's largest prevalence of people living with HIV as 5.6 million [2,3] . 60On the other hand and according to WHO; an estimated 257 million people are living with HBV 61 infection with the highest prevalence in the Western Pacific Region and the African Region as 6.2% 62 and 6.1% of the adult population are infected, respectively. About 1% of persons living with HBV 63 infection (2.7 million people) are also infected with HIV. Moreover, approximately 399,000 people 64 89 exception was if the collection process continued months/years earlier than 2010 and ended in 2010 or 90 afterwards. The keyw...

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Knowledge Gaps of STIs in Africa; Systematic review

Suluiman¹,

SalahEldin

Idris

et al. 2019

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“…Fifty oneincluded studies assessed the awareness of 1,342,002 Africans in regard to HIV in total of 35 countries, eleven studies were conducted in Nigeria [14,[16][17][18]23,38,48,60,63,81,83], nine in South Africa [24,27,29,34,37,42,46,82,84], five in each of Ghana [19,31,65,66,68] and Ethiopia [21,73,77,78,80], four in Uganda [13,55,72,75], three in Mozambique [22,26,30], two in each of Namibia [45,76]and Cameroon [59,67], one in each of Congo [25], Sudan [33], Senegal [39], Morocco [47], Gambia [50], Tanzania [53], Madagascar [71] and Egypt…”

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“…Students, general population, FSW, Pregnant Women, religious leaders, community dwelling women 96,378[16,23,38,48,60,81,83] 52.6[44.4, 60.9] Age of respondents was from 12 to 25 years. Twenty two questions were asked to the participants that are related to the knowledge and awareness of HIV as general, transmission routes, clinical symptoms and prevention attitude, among which 21 questions were analyzed and synthesized.…”

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Knowledge gaps of STIs in Africa; Systematic review

Badawi¹,

SalahEldin

Idris

et al. 2019

PLoS ONE

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Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) are ambiguous burden of tremendous health, social and economic consequences. The current systematic review was conducted in order to determine awareness and knowledge of Africans toward sexually transmitted infections, not only concerning HIV/AIDS, but also other STIs such as gonorrhea, syphilis, HBV, HCV and HPV. A systematic review of literature was conducted, studies were retrieved and selected after fulfilling the inclusion criteria as well as passing the assessment procedure. Related data was extracted, quantitative analysis was conducted among participants who responded to questions related to HIV, HBV, HCV, HPV or STIs knowledge, sensitivity analysis as well as subgroup analysis were also conducted. Seventy four articles addressing knowledge among 35 African countries were included and 136 questions were analyzed and synthesized. The question "does using condom reduces HIV transmission?" was answered by 1,316,873 Africans in 35 countries, 66.8% [95% Cl; 62.6, 70.9] answered yes. While the question "is sexual contact a possible route of HBV transmission?" was answered by 7,490 participants in 5 countries; 42.5% [95% Cl; 20.4, 64.7] answered yes. The differences observed among populations are highlighting the possibility for improvement by directing light toward specific populations as well as addressing specific awareness knowledge to ensure that the general as well as the related specific preventive knowledge is improved.

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“…2,3 The knowledge of HIVAIDS is crucial for dental professionals because of the increasing ORIGINAL ARTICLE prevalence of the infection, and also because of the significant role the dentist plays in preventing cross infection while providing care for HIV-infected patients both diagnosed and undiagnosed. 4 Stigma is often associated with discrimination and human right abuse. Stigmatization can lead to prejudicial thoughts, behaviours, and actions on the part of governments, communities, employers, health care providers, co-workers, friends, and families.…”

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Gender Difference in the Level of Blood Pressure Control among Hypertensive Patients on Treatment

Baba¹,

Talle²,

Buba³

et al. 2019

BOMJ

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Background: Knowledge of prevention and removing the barriers of stigma and discrimination is a critical public health issue for HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in Nigeria. Objective: This paper is aimed at accessing the knowledge of HIV/AIDS prevention, causes and effects of stigma and discrimination towards people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), among the final year dental students. Methodology: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study among final year dental students in accredited dental schools in Nigeria, 2016. At the time of conducting this study there were 8 accredited dental schools in Nigeria. Simple random sampling technique was used to pick four schools from the existing eight. All data obtained was analysed using IBM SPSS version 21.0. Results: Out of the 70 questionnaires administered 60 were filled and returned giving a response rate of 85.7%. Half (50.0%) of the respondents exhibited a good level of knowledge of HIV prevention. About two-thirds (66.7%) of the respondents exhibited good level of knowledge of HIV discrimination and stigma. The main cause of stigma against PLWHA was lack of knowledge about HIV (86.7%). The main effect of stigma on PLWHA as stated by 83.3% is that they hide their HIV status. Conclusion: The study showed that most final year dental students have good knowledge of HIV prevention; causes; and effects of stigma and discriminations among people living with HIV/AIDS. However, they need more training on how occupational HIV exposure should be handled in the clinic.

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Nigerian dental technology students and human immunodeficiency virus infection: Knowledge, misconceptions and willingness to care

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Knowledge Gaps of STIs in Africa; Systematic review

Knowledge Gaps of STIs in Africa; Systematic review

Knowledge gaps of STIs in Africa; Systematic review

Gender Difference in the Level of Blood Pressure Control among Hypertensive Patients on Treatment

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