Prevalence of occupational exposure to HIV and utilization of HIV post exposure prophylaxis among health staff at Bule Hora General Hospital, Bule Hora, Ethiopia

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Occupational risk of HIV and low utilization of post-exposure prophylaxis among nurses has become a global public health concern. According to International Labor Organization estimates, 2.02 million people die each year from work-related accidents or diseases. More than 317 million people suffer, and there are an estimated 337 million fatal and non-fatal work-related accidents per year. WHO report indicates, more than 59 million Health care workers around the world are exposed to biological hazards and about10% of HIV among health workers is the result of needle stick injury. This study focused on assessing the prevalence of occupational exposure to HIV post-exposure prophylaxis among nurses at Bule Hora Hospital. METHODS: institutional based cross-sectional study design was conducted from March 2019 to April 2019. In this study, 306 study participants were involved in the study data was collected using a structured and semi-structured questionnaire. The cleaned data (edited) was entered in to Epi-Data version 4.4.3.1 and exported to SPSS Statistics Version 20 for analysis.

Keywords

• occupational exposure
• hiv
• bule hora hospital
• nurses