Research Article

Evaluation of the Performance of Health Extension Workers in HIV-1/2 Screening Tests: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Table 1

Proportions of health extension workers who have taken HIV-related training before and percentage of their performance.

HIV-related trainingNo. of participants (%)Percentage of concordant results no. (%)Error rate (%)

Participants took all training4 (26.7)179 (99.4)0.6
Participants took all except testing1 (6.7)45 (100)0
Counseling, VCT and PMTCT4 (26.7)190 (100)0
Counseling and VCT3 (20.0)133 (98.5)1.5
Counseling1 (6.7)47 (100)0
VCT2 (13.3)90 (100)0
Total15 (100)684 (99.6)0.4