Open AccessDeterminants of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Public Hospitals of West Shewa Zone, Central Ethiopia: Case-Control Study
Author(s) -
Fufa Hunduma,
Ewenat Gebrehanna,
Fanna Adugna Debela
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
hiv/aids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1179-1373
DOI - 10.2147/hiv.s299585
Subject(s) - medicine , odds ratio , confidence interval , transmission (telecommunications) , pregnancy , demography , pediatrics , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , public health , obstetrics , family medicine , nursing , biology , electrical engineering , sociology , engineering , genetics
Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of human immune deficiency virus (HIV) is the infection of baby by HIV that originated from an HIV-positive mother during pregnancy and breast feeding. Without intervention, the transmission rate of HIV ranges from 15-45%, which can be reduced to below 5% with effective intervention. In Ethiopia, the final mother-to-child transmission rate was 15% in 2016, which was much higher than the target of the country to reduce transmission to lower than 5% by 2020. The study aims to identify determinants of transmission of HIV from mother to child in the West Shewa Zone.