Knowledge, attitude, and practice of human immune-deficiency virus post exposure prophylaxis among health care workers of governmental hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Authors’ detail and affiliation

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Abstract Objectives The main objective of this study will be to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of human immune deficiency virus post-exposure prophylaxis for health care workers in government hospitals in the city of Addis Ababa. Methods A cross-sectional descriptive study conducted from March to April 2022. The lottery method of simple random sampling technique used to select six government hospitals. Structured self-administered questionnaires used to collect data, which coded to Microsoft Excel and then exported to SPSS Version 26 for descriptive analysis. Results large proportion of respondents, 51.6%, found to have poor knowledge about post exposure prophylaxis for human immune deficiency virus. However, most respondents (54.2%) had a favorable attitude toward post-exposure prophylaxis for human immunodeficiency virus, while a significant number of respondents (63.6%) had poor practice. Conclusion A significant proportion of respondents had poor knowledge and practice towards post exposure prophylaxis for human immune deficiency virus, even though they had relatively favorable attitudes. Most health care workers (68.9%) did not receive any post-exposure prophylaxis training.