Maternal Educational Level Determine Mother-to-child Transmission of HIV Among HIV-exposed Infants in Governmental Health Facility of Bahir Dar City, Northwest Ethiopia.
Abstract:Background: Globally at the end of 2011, 3.2 million children under the age of 15 were living with HIV, among these children 91% found in Africa. In Ethiopia, one of every three children born to these women is infected with HIV. This study was done to determine mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection and its factors among HIV-exposed infants on PMTCT service. Method: An institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted among randomly selected 423 HIV exposed infants on PMTCT service in Bahir Dar ci… Show more
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