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Correlaciones de la prueba para VIH entre mujeres de Malawi: Resultados de la Encuesta a base de Indicadores Múltiples por Conglomerdados (MICS) del 2006
Author(s) -
Siziya Seter,
Muula Adamson S.,
Rudatsikira Emmanuel,
Mataya Ronald H.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
tropical medicine and international health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1365-3156
pISSN - 1360-2276
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2008.02155.x
Subject(s) - medicine , marital status , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , prenatal care , demography , population , environmental health , family medicine , sociology
Summary We report a study of women 15–49 years aimed at assessing correlates of HIV testing and having received test results in a nationally representative survey of women in Malawi. A total of 26 259 women were recruited into the study, of whom 3712 (14.1%) had ever been tested for HIV infection and received their results. We found that age and education were not significantly associated with HIV testing but marital status, wealth, region were. Contrary to our expectations that women who had delivered a child were more likely to have been ever tested when accessing prenatal and intra‐partum care, we found that women who had delivered a child in the 2 years before the survey were less likely to have ever been tested. We suggest that by 2006 when the survey was conducted, prenatal and intra‐partum care were not important avenues for HIV testing in Malawi.