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Decline in the prevalence HIV among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in Tanzania, 2001-2011
- Source :
- Tanzania Journal of Health Research; Vol 19, No 2 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- African Journals Online (AJOL), 2017.
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Abstract
- Background: The Tanzania National AIDS Control Programme has established HIV sentinel surveillance among antenatal clinic (ANC) attendees as one of the methods for collecting data on HIV prevalence. This article provides trends on HIV prevalence for 92 sentinel sites that have constantly been part of the surveillance system since 2001 and have participated in at least three consecutive rounds.Method: The surveillance population included all pregnant women aged 15–49 years who were attending a selected sentinel ANC site for the first time for any pregnancy between 2001 and 2011. Serial testing for HIV infection was done anonymously by detecting for the presence of IgG antibodies to HIV on dried blood spot (DBS) specimens. HIV trends were calculated taking into account random effects from sites on the following variables: region, sites and socio-demographic characteristics defined as age, marital status, parity, education level and duration of stay at present residence.Results: Overall, there was a significant decline in HIV prevalence from 9.6% in 2001 to 5.6% in 2011 (p
- Subjects :
- Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Population
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Developing country
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
medicine.disease_cause
HIV/AIDS, prevalence, surveillance, pregnant women, antenatal care, Tanzania
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
education
Pregnancy
education.field_of_study
biology
business.industry
General Medicine
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Tanzania
Marital status
Residence
business
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18219241 and 18216404
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Tanzania Journal of Health Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ac6af4e1a367cdad121b62d8d9b14403