The study of knowledge, adopted attitudes and some practice of domestic helps in relation to the TSI, HIV and AIDS in the urban commune of sikasso, mali.

Abstract

We led in September 2011 a quantitative and behavior's survey by the domestic helps of the urban township of Sikasso. This survey had for general objective to study knowledge, the adopted attitudes and domestic help behavior's practices concerning the TSI/HIV/AIDS. The domestic help distribution by quinquennial age groups was 86% (15-19 years), of 10% (20-24 years) and in short of 4% (25-29 years). The average of age was of 17,2 years with the extreme ages of 15 years and 27 years. All investigated of our survey had heard to already speak of the TSI/HIV/AIDS (100%) with as sources of information the television (100,0%), the radio (100,0%) and the the announced prevalence of TSI and/or of symptoms associated to the presence of TSI was estimated to 21,0% ; their knowledge on the three main transmission ways of the HIV/AIDS were for the sexual way (65,9%), the blood way (52,4%) and the Mother - Child way (34,1%). According to their attitudes 20,0% of the domestic helps declared to have made the test of tracking among which 80,0% withdrew their result. The middle age to the first domestic help sexual intercourse is 14,5 years and 78,8% of those that already had a sexual intercourse declared not to have used a condom at the time of the last sexual intercourse. A strong proportion of domestic helps (64,0%) attended less once to a sitting of sensitization on the TSI/HIV/AIDS.