Background HIV testing rates have exceeded 90% among the pregnant women at Mbale
Regional Referral Hospital in Mbale District, eastern Uganda, since the introduction of …

Background The burden of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Uganda is high. The aim of
this paper is to describe the experience of the first 7 years of the prevention of mother-to …

Background Uganda began to implement the prevention of mother-to-child transmission
(PMTCT) of HIV programme in 2000, and by the end of 2003 it had expanded to cover 38 of …

Background Routine HIV counselling and testing as part of antenatal care has been
institutionalized in Uganda as an entry point for pregnant women into the prevention of …

Two years after the introduction of provider-initiated, opt-out HIV counselling and testing
during antenatal care (ANC) in Uganda, HIV testing uptake is still low. This study was carried …

The objective of this study is to assess the understanding of routine offer of HIV testing
among women using antenatal care (ANC) services in a rural African district. A descriptive …

OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of routine antenatal HIV testing for preventing mother-to-
child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in urban Zimbabwe. METHODS: Community counsellors …

The aim was to assess population-level HIV-testing uptake among pregnant women, key for
access to prevention-of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) services, and to identify risk …

This paper describes the results of a study exploring the attitudes of women attending
maternity clinics to voluntary counselling and testing during pregnancy in rural areas in …

A problem commonly encountered in programs for prevention of mother-to-child-
transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa is low rates of HIV test acceptance …