Title Impact of Awareness Through Community Health Volunteer Approach On Prevention of HIV/AIDS Among Migrants in Ludhiana City

• Objectives         To study the impact of local community health volunteers approach on the knowledge , attitudes and practices regarding HIV/AIDS  among migrants in Ludhiana Industries

 

• Methods     This study is based on Ludhiana City known as Manchester of India , a district of Punjab , India.  Ludhiana city is a hub of thousands of  textile and steel Industries and having a 7-8 lakhs of migratory  population working in different industries . A sample of 1500 respondents (unskilled and semi-skilled workers) was drawn through stratified random sampling techniques duing Pre and Post  AIDS Preventive education  intervention from the 100 different large scale industries selected by simple stratified random sampling procedure having more than 50 industrial workers in age group of 15-45 . A well designed health education program using personal communication and visual media through community health volunteers was conducted for industrial workers by covering more than 100 industries  .

 

• Results            .    Knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS  and  its prevalence , two or more correct modes of transmission and identifying  correct method of diagnosing HIV infection increased from 17 to 73 percent ,   10 to 52 percent and 10 to 71 % respectively. Around 67 % of the respondents as compared to Only 17 percent of the industrial workers are of the viewed that HIV infected persons should be allowed to work in the industry,  Work pressure or mental stress are the main cause of drug addiction among migrants .  Knowledge regarding multiple sex relations as unsafe sex behavior  increased from  10 % to 80 %. Sexual encounter with CSW decrease from 23 to 10 %. Use of condom increase from 12 to 70 %. From the analysis of data it is established that after health education services industrial workers underwent blood testing for the detection of HIV infection in the different hospitals HIV positive cases in the floating population of migrant workers in the city of Ludhiana is 1.6 percent and the incident rate of HIV/AIDS is 2.05 percent

 

• Conclusions :  There is significant increase in knowledge , attitude and practices among migrants in relation to Prevention of  HIV/AIDS among migrants