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Prenatal care coverage and correlates of HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: Insight from demographic and health surveys of 16 countries

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  • Oluwafemi Emmanuel Awopegba
  • Amarachi Kalu
  • Bright Opoku Ahinkorah
  • Abdul-Aziz Seidu
  • Anthony Idowu Ajayi

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Background: Prenatal screening of pregnant women for HIV is central to eliminating mother-to-child-transmission (MTCT) of HIV. While some countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have scaled up their prevention of MTCT programmes, ensuring a near-universal prenatal care HIV testing, and recording a significant reduction in new infection among children, several others have poor outcomes due to inadequate testing. We conducted a multi-country analysis of demographic and health surveys (DHS) to assess the coverage of HIV testing during pregnancy and also examine the factors associated with uptake. Methods: We analysed data of 64,933 women from 16 SSA countries with recent DHS datasets (2015–2018) using Stata version 16. Adjusted and unadjusted logistic regression models were used to examine correlates of prenatal care uptake of HIV testing. Statistical significance was set at p

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  • Oluwafemi Emmanuel Awopegba & Amarachi Kalu & Bright Opoku Ahinkorah & Abdul-Aziz Seidu & Anthony Idowu Ajayi, 2020. "Prenatal care coverage and correlates of HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: Insight from demographic and health surveys of 16 countries," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(11), pages 1-15, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0242001
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242001
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    1. Michael Deynu & Kingsley Agyemang & Nana Anokye, 2022. "Factors Associated with HIV Testing among Reproductive Women Aged 15–49 Years in the Gambia: Analysis of the 2019–2020 Gambian Demographic and Health Survey," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(8), pages 1-17, April.

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