Determinants of non-testing for HIV among women during antenatal care follow up in sub-saharan Africa: a hierarchical analysis of recent Demographic and Health Survey datasets
Tadesse Tarik Tamir, Alebachew Ferede Zegeye, Enyew Getaneh Mekonen, Bikis Liyew, Belayneh Shetie Workneh · 2024
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Description
Testing pregnant women for HIV is the doorway to preventing transmission to babies, yet many women in sub-Saharan Africa go untested during antenatal care. Tadesse Tamir and co-authors mine recent Demographic and Health Surveys to find out who gets missed. Their sample covers about 788,000 women who had antenatal care in the five years before the surveys.
A layered statistical model sorts the influences. Young age, little or no schooling, not being in a union, unemployment, and household poverty all raised the odds of no test. So did low media exposure, stigmatizing views about people with HIV, male-headed households, and living in the countryside. The authors say closing the testing gap means reaching these groups inside routine pregnancy care, where the test is already supposed to be standard.
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| CREATOR | Tadesse Tarik Tamir, Alebachew Ferede Zegeye, Enyew Getaneh Mekonen, Bikis Liyew, Belayneh Shetie Workneh |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |