HIV Prevalence amongst Pregnant Women Clients Attending Antenatal Clinic at the Faith Alive Foundation and PMTCT Centre, Jos Plateau State

Abstract

Introduction: HIV infection and AIDS is a public health problem worldwide, particularly affecting the populace in resource challenged setting like sub-saharan Africa. Women of reproductive age are mostly affected and infected with the HIV disease. Methodology: A cross-sectional study of 216 randomly selected women that booked for antenatal care at the Faith Alive Foundation and PMTCT centre Jos between 1 st July to 31 st December, 2014 was carried out. Information regarding age, parity, gestational age at booking, educational status and HIV sero-status of the clients was analysed. Screening test was conducted in a serial two step approval using determine and UNIGOLD as the confirmatory test, while STAT-PAK was the tie-beaker with discordant result as per the national algorithm. Positive samples were confirmed by western blot method. Result: A total of 18 women out of the 216 women studied were positive giving a sero-prevalence rate of 8.3%. The highest sero-prevalent rate was amongst 25 -29 years age group (31.5%). Women of parity 1 -4 constituted the highest group of 62.9%. Majority of the women 65.7% booked in the second trimester while 26.9% booked in the 3 rd trimester. Most of the women 47.2% had secondary school education while only 5.6% of them had no form of education. Conclusion: HIV infection prevalence rate among antenatal attendants at Faith Alive Foundation and PMTCT centre Jos is still high. Multisectorial approach and intervention strategies should be further scaled up for the prevention of vertical transmission of the virus. However, it is worth noting that it is mainly an * Corresponding author. A. Charles et al. 60HIV/AIDS hospital which should have affected the outcome.

Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among pregnant women in Nigeria: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Full texts of four articles were inaccessible. Twenty-five articles underwent stage 3 screening and 23 articles were selected29–51 after excluding two studies that did not provide the details of HIV diagnostic tools (figure 2).…”

“…The women were aged 15–49 years and all the studies were conducted in healthcare facilities. Ten studies were conducted in tertiary (teaching) hospitals,30–33 35 37 38 40 42 51 five in general hospitals,29 34 41 46 47 two in antenatal care clinics43 49 and one each in the following settings: a military hospital,36 a cottage hospital,44 a Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) centre,45 maternity centres across two contiguous states,48 community-based testing centres50 and a traditional birth home 39. Majority of the studies did not clearly mention the trimester in which the HIV testing was done, however, it was stated that women were tested at the time of booking.…”

“…The overall sample size in individual studies ranged from 118 to 37 464. Majority of the studies were conducted in the South-South geopolitical zone,11 29 31–33 35 36 38 39 41 44 46 followed by North-Central zone 7 31 42 43 45 47 50 51. Few studies were conducted in South-East2 37 40 and South-West2 30 48 geopolitical zones.…”

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“…In Nigeria, a report from 2001 to 2010 indicated a seemly gradual and steady decline in the trend of HIV prevalence among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics from 5.5% in 2001;5.0% in 2003;4.1% in 20054.1% in and 4.1% in 20104.1% in (FMH, 2012. However, reports from further studies indicated an upward trend in HIV prevalence of 4.9% in Bayelsa in 2013 (Ibrahim, Owoeye and Obilahi, 2013); 8.83% in Nnewi in 2014 (Okafor, Dinmoke and Udigwe, 2014) and slightly lower (8.3%) in Jos in 2016 (Charles, et al 2016).…”

Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Among Pregnant Women: Are We Winning the War?

“…In Nigeria, a report from 2001 to 2010 indicated a seemly gradual and steady decline in the trend of HIV prevalence among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics from 5.5% in 2001; 5.0% in 2003; 4.1% in 2005 and 4.1% in 2010 (FMH, 2012). However, reports from further studies indicated an upward trend in HIV prevalence of 4.9% in Bayelsa in 2013 (Ibrahim, Owoeye and Obilahi, 2013); 8.83% in Nnewi in 2014 (Okafor, Dinmoke and Udigwe, 2014) and slightly lower (8.3%) in Jos in 2016 (Charles, et al 2016).…”