Hiv Prevention Practice and Associated Factors Among Hawasa Industrial Park Factory Workers, Southern Ethiopia: The Cross-Sectional Study Design

Abstract

Human immune deficiency virus (HIV) is a workplace issue that mainly affects adults in the working-age group. The effects of HIV/AIDS among factory workers have a significant challenge for the private as well as government sector, which reduce prospects for sustainable development. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess HIV prevention practice and associated factors among Hawasa Industrial Park factory workers, Southern Ethiopia. Institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted on 636 Hawasa Industrial Park factory workers in February 2019 by using a multistage sampling method. Data were entered into the computer using Epi-data software version 3.1 and exported to SPSS software version 22 for cleaning and analysis. This study found that the magnitude of overall HIV prevention practice among Hawassa Industrial Park workers was 79.3%. The participants who had more than two sexual partners were found to be 74% less likely to have HIV prevention practice than those who had one sexual partner in the last twelve months (AOR=0.26;95%CI=0.11,0.58; P=0.001). The odds of being engaged in the HIV prevention practice were 2.04 times higher for participants who had no experience of alcohol intake when compared to participants who had the experience of alcohol intake in the last twelve months (AOR=2.04; 95%CI=1.21, 3.83; P=0.03). The magnitude of condom utilization and being faithful to one sexual partner was below the report of Ethiopia demographic health survey 2016. The monthly income, living alone, age of respondents, number of sexual partners, and alcohol consumption had a significant effect on the HIV prevention practice of factory workers.