Gaps in adolescent engagement in antenatal care and prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission services in Kenya

K Ronen, CJ McGrath, AC Langat… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Background: Rates of pregnancy and HIV infection are high among adolescents. However,
their engagement in prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) services is …

Timing of maternal HIV testing and uptake of prevention of mother-to-child transmission interventions among women and their infected infants in Johannesburg, South …

KG Technau, E Kalk, A Coovadia, V Black… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Background: By 2011, South African prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of
HIV programs had reduced perinatal HIV transmission at 6 weeks of age to 2.7%. We …

Implementation and operational research: uptake of services and behaviors in the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission cascade in Zimbabwe

SI McCoy, R Buzdugan, NS Padian… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To examine the uptake of services and behaviors in the prevention of mother-to-
child HIV transmission (PMTCT) cascade in Zimbabwe and to determine factors associated …

Utilization of “prevention of mother-to-child transmission” of HIV services by adolescent and young mothers in Mulago Hospital, Uganda

M Mustapha, V Musiime, S Bakeera-Kitaka… - BMC infectious …, 2018 - Springer
Background Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) has lowered the incidence
of paediatric HIV globally. The risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (MTCT) remains …

HIV-infected adolescent mothers and their infants: low coverage of HIV services and high risk of HIV transmission in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

C Horwood, LM Butler, L Haskins, S Phakathi… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Objectives Rates of pregnancy and HIV infection are high among South African adolescents,
yet little is known about rates of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (MTCT) in this group. We …

PMTCT service uptake among adolescents and adult women attending antenatal care in selected health facilities in Zimbabwe

R Musarandega, R Machekano… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Background: Age-disaggregated analyses of prevention of mother-to-child transmission
(PMTCT) program data to assess the uptake of HIV services by pregnant adolescent women …

Outcomes of HIV-exposed children in western Kenya: efficacy of prevention of mother to child transmission in a resource-constrained setting

WM Nyandiko, B Otieno-Nyunya, B Musick… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To compare rates of mother to child transmission of HIV and infant survival in
women-infant dyads receiving different interventions in a prevention of Mother to Child …

Mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Kenya: results from a nationally representative study

M Sirengo, L Muthoni, TA Kellogg, AA Kim… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Background: Kenya has an estimated 13,000 new infant HIV infections that occur annually.
We measured the burden of HIV infection among women of childbearing age and assessed …

Uptake of prevention of mother to child transmission interventions in Kenya: health systems are more influential than stigma

J Kinuthia, JN Kiarie, C Farquhar… - Journal of the …, 2011 - Springer
Background We set out to determine the relative roles of stigma versus health systems in
non-uptake of prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV-1 interventions: we …

Towards elimination of mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV: the impact of a rapid results initiative in Nyanza Province, Kenya

LL Dillabaugh, J Lewis Kulzer, K Owuor… - AIDS research and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Many HIV‐positive pregnant women and infants are still not receiving optimal services,
preventing the goal of eliminating mother‐to‐child transmission (MTCT) and improving …