Journal of Educational, Health and Community Psychology Vol 11, No 2, 2022 E-ISSN 2460-8467 Mandagi et al. 479 The Role of Pregnant Women's Perception and Social Support on the Utilization of VCT Services Ayik Mirayanti Mandagi 1 , Jayanti Dian Eka Sari 2 , Diansanto Prayoga 3 , Syifa’ul Lailiyah 4 , Vidia Nuria Rahman 5 , Arini Khoirunnisa 6 1 Division of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Population Studies, and Health Promotion, Public Health Program Study in Banyuwangi, SIKIA Universitas Airlangga, Banyuwangi 2 Division of Health Promotion and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Population Studies, and Health Promotion, Public Health Program Study, SIKIA Universitas Airlangga, Banyuwangi 3,4 Department of Administration and Health Policy, Public Health Program Study, SIKIA Universitas Airlangga, Banyuwangi 4,5 Public Health Program Study, Sekolah Ilmu Kesehatan dan Ilmu Alam Universitas Airlangga, Banyuwangi e-mail: * 1 ayikm@fkm.unair.ac.id. Abstract Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) is an HIV/AIDS prevention program with high effectiveness evidence, especially for individuals who have HIV/AIDS risk behaviors. Using VCT services can be seen from the influence of perceptions and social support. This study aims to analyze the correlation between perceptions and social support of pregnant women with the behavior of using VCT services in Banyuwangi. The method used in this study is an analytical observational with a cross-sectional research design. The population of this study was pregnant women in the Kembiritan, Sobo, Genteng Kulon, Kertosari, Singojuruh, and Singotrunan in the range of May - to November 2018. The sampling technique used was proportional random sampling. Most of the respondents have a terrible perception of 51 — 6%. The majority of respondents have poor social support, namely 84.1%. The percentage of respondents who have good perceptions and behaviors in utilizing VCT services is 62.4%. Meanwhile, 60.1% of respondents with social support and good behavior use VCT. Keywords: voluntary counseling test (VCT), perception, social support, pregnant Received 3 April 2022/Accepted 30 May 2022 ©Author all rights reserved Introduction Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the virus that attacks the immune system, where the patient will lose immunity and cause Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) (World Health Organization, 2021). Globally, in the world, 37.7 million people are living with HIV, and with an estimated increase of more than 36%, Indonesia is the fastest-growing country in the number of HIV-AIDS cases in Southeast Asia (UNAIDS, 2015). in Asia, Indonesia ranks 5th of the countries most at risk of HIV/AIDS (Ministry of Health RI, 2018). From year to year, the trend of death and