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About This Document: OBJECTIVE: To assess the acceptability of measures aimed at preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV among counseled and yet-to-be-counseled antenatal women in a federal medical center in Nigeria. METHODS: A valid and reliable questionnaire was interviewer administered to newly booking antenatal women who were yet to be counseled about HIV/AIDS and women on an antenatal follow-up visit who had already been counseled about HIV/AIDS. RESULTS: A total of 108 newly booked women and 116 women on follow-up visit responded to the questionnaire. The proportion of the counseled women who accepted HIV screening (98%) was significantly higher than the proportion of the yet-to-be-counseled women who would want to be screened (88%). Also, the proportions of the counseled women who accepted HIV screening so as to benefit from interventions like prevention of mother-to-child transmission, antiretroviral therapy and prevention of transmission to partner were significantly higher than the proportions among the yet-to-be-counseled women. The majority of the women in the study would accept antiretroviral drugs and avoidance of breastfeeding to prevent mother-to-child transmission, while only 29 (14%) respondents would accept cesarean section to prevent mother-to-child transmission. There was no statistically significant difference in the proportion of the counseled women (15%) who would accept cesarean section to prevent mother to child transmission when compared to the proportion among the yet-to-be-counseled women (11%). CONCLUSION: Antenatal HIV screening is acceptable to most pregnant women attending our hospital, and while many would accept antiretroviral drugs and avoidance of breastfeeding to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, there is low acceptability of elective cesarean section.

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Acceptability of Measures Aimed at Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV among Pregnant Women

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Acceptability of Measures Aimed at

Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of

HIV among Pregnant Women

Moses O. Abiodun, FWACS; Munir’deen A. Ijaiya, FWACS; Peter A. Aboy

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