HIV/AIDS Prevention and Health Promotion

HIV infection is currently one of the leading causes of death and disease in countries around the world, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in general and Mwene-Ditu in particular are no exception. Ignorance of the serological status is one of the important factors of the propagation of the disease. Therefore, we conducted a descriptive and cross-sectional observational study from June 15 to July 15, 2020, i.e. one month in our railway town of Mwene-Ditu. It consisted in identifying not only the explanatory factors of low utilization of HIV voluntary counseling and testing services (VCT), but also in determining the socio-demographic characteristics of the users of this service. The usual descriptive and epidemiological statistical analyses were carried out for this purpose to determine the associations between certain variables studied.