A study on the impact of HIV/AIDS peer education program on the management of HIV and AIDS at the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA)

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines whether the HIV/AIDS peer education program has had an impact in the management of HIV/AIDS at the Kenya Ports Authority. It also aimed at determining how effective the peer education program is within the company from peer educators' point of view.The study was a non experimental quantitative research. For the purpose of this study, the survey method was used. The study focused on 75 employees of the Kenya Ports Authority, aged between 20 and 55 years. Thirty male and female employees who have undergone peer education sessions and thirty who had not undergone the sessions and 15(fifteen) trained peer educators based at the head office of the Kenya Ports Authority in Mombasa, Kenya; participated in the study. The employees were randomly selected for the study.Data were collected by means of a questionnaire which comprised of two sets of questions, one filled by respondents who had attended peer educations sessions and those who had not, and a second set of questions completed by the trained peer educators. Data analysis was done by means of SPSS with tables generated in SPSS and the output charts done in MS Excel.The responses given by the respondents provided an understanding of the knowledge and attitudes of the targeted group towards HIV/AIDS, due to their participation or not in the peer education program; while the responses from the trained peer educators were used to evaluate how effective the program was from their perspectiveAlthough inferential statistical analysis was not conducted, the findings seem to indicate that the HIV/AIDS peer education program had increased respondents HIV/AIDS knowledge levels and participants had acquired positive attitudes towards HIV/AIDS. However, A similar study to this needs to be conducted on a larger scale to either confirm or reject the findings of this study and to ascertain the impact of the peer education program in a workplace.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University