Male involvement in prevention of mother to child transmission of human immuno virus and associated factors among partners' of reproductive age women at Debre Tabor town, Northwest Ethiopia: a community based cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of male involvement in prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of human immune virus (HIV) and associated factors among partners' of reproductive age women at Debre Tabor town, Northwest Ethiopia. A community based cross sectional study was employed among 561 study participants. Data was collected with pretested structured questionnaire. The data was entered by Epi-Info version 7 software and exported to SPSS version 23 for analysis. Statistical significance was declared at P value of < 0.05.

Results

In this study, only 119 (21.2%) of males (95% CI 17.8%, 24.8%) were involved in PMTCT of HIV. Being government employee (AOR = 3.73, 95%CI (2.169, 6.419)), had ever heard about PMTCT of HIV (AOR = 2.46, 9

SUBMITTER: Dagnew E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7106685 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature