Does facility readiness promote high-quality of provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling to pregnant women? A national survey for improving policy of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Tanzania.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling (PITC) is a recommended approach to screen for HIV to all pregnant women during antenatal care (ANC) visits, and all with HIV positive results have to be enrolled into prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) program. However, little is known about the relationship between facility readiness and the uptake of PITC to pregnant women attending ANC in Tanzania. Therefore, this study assessed whether the facility readiness promotes the uptake of PITC to the pregnant women attending ANC for the purpose of improving the PMTCT interventions in Tanzania.

Methods

This study analyzed data for health facilities obtained from the 2014-2015 Tanzania service provision assessment survey. The Primary outcome measure w

SUBMITTER: Bintabara D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8254244 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature