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HIV testing and knowledge on mother-to-child transmission among pregnant women attending antenatal care at Vanga Hospital, Democratic Republic of Congo

BACKGROUND: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes an infectious disease that can be transmitted from an infected mother to her child. Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programs provide a range of services to women and children that can reduce the risk of vertical transmission of...

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Autores principales: Mudji, Junior, Olarewaju, Victoria, Madinga, Blaise, Malala, Justice, Kayeye, Auguy, Horsmans, Yves
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Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10519118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37753436
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2023.1991
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author Mudji, Junior
Olarewaju, Victoria
Madinga, Blaise
Malala, Justice
Kayeye, Auguy
Horsmans, Yves
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Olarewaju, Victoria
Madinga, Blaise
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description BACKGROUND: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes an infectious disease that can be transmitted from an infected mother to her child. Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programs provide a range of services to women and children that can reduce the risk of vertical transmission of HIV. Unfortunately, PMTCT programs face many challenges in the rural Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 460 pregnant women attending antenatal care at Vanga Hospital in the Vanga health zone, DRC from March 11(th) to June 25(th), 2019. Serological tests were performed and a pre-tested questionnaire regarding HIV knowledge was given to all participants. Data were analyzed with STATA 13.0. Descriptive statistics of key variables were computed and logistic regression was used to assess the association between participant’s characteristics and knowledge of MTCT. RESULTS: Among the participants, 95.4% (439/460) reported that they have heard about HIV, 82.4% (378/460) indicated sexual intercourse as one of the routes of HIV transmission but only 30.4% (139/460) mentioned MTCT as one of the routes. In addition, only 10.1% (46/460) had knowledge of the existence of PMTCT. Participants’ age (>29 years), education level, previous antenatal care, and previous HIV tests were significantly associated with knowledge of MTCT. Also, age (>29 years) and education level were significantly associated with previous HIV test uptake. Most pregnant women 82.3% (376/460) reported that they have never been tested in the past for HIV infection and the prevalence was at 0.9% (4/460). CONCLUSIONS: Knowledge of MTCT of HIV, previous uptake of HIV testing, and prevalence was low. The rural setting of Vanga and insufficient HIV sensitization activities are considered contributors to this. While the low prevalence is a positive finding, much needs to be done to improve the uptake of HIV testing and knowledge of HIV MTCT.
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spelling pubmed-105191182023-09-26 HIV testing and knowledge on mother-to-child transmission among pregnant women attending antenatal care at Vanga Hospital, Democratic Republic of Congo Mudji, Junior Olarewaju, Victoria Madinga, Blaise Malala, Justice Kayeye, Auguy Horsmans, Yves J Public Health Afr Article BACKGROUND: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes an infectious disease that can be transmitted from an infected mother to her child. Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programs provide a range of services to women and children that can reduce the risk of vertical transmission of HIV. Unfortunately, PMTCT programs face many challenges in the rural Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 460 pregnant women attending antenatal care at Vanga Hospital in the Vanga health zone, DRC from March 11(th) to June 25(th), 2019. Serological tests were performed and a pre-tested questionnaire regarding HIV knowledge was given to all participants. Data were analyzed with STATA 13.0. Descriptive statistics of key variables were computed and logistic regression was used to assess the association between participant’s characteristics and knowledge of MTCT. RESULTS: Among the participants, 95.4% (439/460) reported that they have heard about HIV, 82.4% (378/460) indicated sexual intercourse as one of the routes of HIV transmission but only 30.4% (139/460) mentioned MTCT as one of the routes. In addition, only 10.1% (46/460) had knowledge of the existence of PMTCT. Participants’ age (>29 years), education level, previous antenatal care, and previous HIV tests were significantly associated with knowledge of MTCT. Also, age (>29 years) and education level were significantly associated with previous HIV test uptake. Most pregnant women 82.3% (376/460) reported that they have never been tested in the past for HIV infection and the prevalence was at 0.9% (4/460). CONCLUSIONS: Knowledge of MTCT of HIV, previous uptake of HIV testing, and prevalence was low. The rural setting of Vanga and insufficient HIV sensitization activities are considered contributors to this. While the low prevalence is a positive finding, much needs to be done to improve the uptake of HIV testing and knowledge of HIV MTCT. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2023-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10519118/ /pubmed/37753436 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2023.1991 Text en Copyright © 2023, the Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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Madinga, Blaise
Malala, Justice
Kayeye, Auguy
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HIV testing and knowledge on mother-to-child transmission among pregnant women attending antenatal care at Vanga Hospital, Democratic Republic of Congo
title HIV testing and knowledge on mother-to-child transmission among pregnant women attending antenatal care at Vanga Hospital, Democratic Republic of Congo
title_full HIV testing and knowledge on mother-to-child transmission among pregnant women attending antenatal care at Vanga Hospital, Democratic Republic of Congo
title_fullStr HIV testing and knowledge on mother-to-child transmission among pregnant women attending antenatal care at Vanga Hospital, Democratic Republic of Congo
title_full_unstemmed HIV testing and knowledge on mother-to-child transmission among pregnant women attending antenatal care at Vanga Hospital, Democratic Republic of Congo
title_short HIV testing and knowledge on mother-to-child transmission among pregnant women attending antenatal care at Vanga Hospital, Democratic Republic of Congo
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10519118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37753436
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2023.1991
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