Research Article
The Voluntary Counceling and Testing (VCT) in the Roles of National HIV Reporting
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.29-3-2020.2314994, author={Dian Afif Arifah and Ratih Andhika Akbar Rahma and Iklilul Faiz and Ragil Retnaningsih}, title={The Voluntary Counceling and Testing (VCT) in the Roles of National HIV Reporting}, proceedings={Proceedings of the U-Go Healthy International Conference, U-Go Healthy 2020, 29 March 2020, Pacitan, East Java, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={U-GO HEALTHY}, year={2022}, month={9}, keywords={voluntary counceling and test (vct) hiv self-report}, doi={10.4108/eai.29-3-2020.2314994} }- Dian Afif Arifah
Ratih Andhika Akbar Rahma
Iklilul Faiz
Ragil Retnaningsih
Year: 2022
The Voluntary Counceling and Testing (VCT) in the Roles of National HIV Reporting
U-GO HEALTHY
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.29-3-2020.2314994
Abstract
The primary problem in HIV risk assessment is underreporting. The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS believe that the number of reported cases does not describe the actual number of HIV and AIDS cases in Indonesia. In 2016, based on the number of drug and prostitution users, the Ministry of Health estimated the number of PLWHA (people living with HIV / AIDS) in Indonesia is about 640.443 while the revealed case in the end of 2017 was only 280.623 (SIHA, 2017). The high gap between the estimated number of PLWHA and those who have reached HIV services caused many people with HIV/AIDS didn’t get the ARV treatment early. This study tried to systematically explore how VCT facilities play a role in the reporting new HIV cases in Indonesia. This study using secondary data involves 497 districts/cities obtained from the 2017 HIV and AIDS Situation October - December 2017. The HIV as dependent or response variable is the number of HIV new cases reported in October – December 2017. The VCT variable is the total number of VCT facilities in the districts/cities. Data were analyzed using simple linear regression modelled using the R program version 3.2.3. This finding proves the role of VCT facilities in increasing the discovery of new HIV cases in Indonesia where an increase in the number of VCT services can increase the number of diagnoses of HIV cases by as much as 7.4 times. The influence of VCT variable on HIV variable was 67.6% (R Square 0.676).
