Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Towards COVID-19 Among People Living with HIV/AIDS in Kigali, Rwanda
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Towards COVID‑19 Among People Living with HIV/AIDS in Kigali, Rwanda Patrick Gad Iradukunda1 · Gashema Pierre2 · Valens Muhozi2 · Knowledge Denhere3 · Tafadzwa Dzinamarira1,4 Accepted: 17 October 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract As with other countries globally, Rwanda has faced a recent outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) against a backdrop of an HIV epidemic. At present, there is no successful cure or vaccine for both COVID-19 and HIV. People with underlying conditions, including HIV, are at increased risk of severe COVID-19 manifestations. This underscores the need to enhance the knowledge, attitudes, and practice of people living with HIV (PLWH) to protect this population against COVID-19. An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted from August 31 to September 18, 2020 among 376 participants who were selected by a simple random sampling technique. A pretested and structured self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. Quality scores were calculated as a measure of the participants’ knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) levels. The student t-test was used to compare continuous variables between low (5 years duration on ART, respectively. More details are presented in Table 3.
Correlation Between Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice There was a moderate positive correlation (r = 0.57) between knowledge and attitude scores (p
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