Mother- to-Child Transmission of HIV and Associated Factor among Exposed Infants on Follow-up in Jinka town Health Facilities, South Omo zone, South Ethiopia , 2020.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Techbele Erdaw | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Adimasu Mekonnen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tadewos Kidist | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-13T07:13:23Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-06T09:02:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-12-13T07:13:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-06T09:02:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background: HIV/AIDS can affect all age groups, but is the leading infectious cause of pediatricsmorbidity and mortality in the world. A vast majority of HIV infections in children under the ageof 15 were through mother to child transmission. In Ethiopia, MTCT accounts for 95 percent ofchildhood HIV infections but risk of transmission increases significantly if the mother is untreated Objective: To assess rate of Mother- to - Child Transmission of HIV and associated factors amongexposed infants on follow-up in Jinka town health facilities, South omo zone, South Ethiopia,2020. Methodology: A retrospective cohort study was employed among 230 exposed infants in Jinkageneral hospital and millennium health center at Jinka. Medical records of HIV- exposed infantand their mothers enrolled at PMTCT clinics in the study institution and registered fromSeptember/2014 to August /2018 were extracted using data extraction sheet after getting ethical clearance from the Institutional review board of Addis Ababa University. The data was entered inEpi Data 4.2 version and exported to SPSS version 25 for final analysis. Bivariate andmultivariable logistic regression were used to identify predictors of HIV vertical transmission.Significance was considered at P-value < 0.05 in the multivariable analysis. Results: A total of 228 infant-mother records were included in analysis. 5.3% of HEIs got HIVinfected vertically in the study area. Not receiving ARV prophylaxis at birth (AOR=5.8, 95% CI:1.02-33.53, p=0.047), absence of maternal ARV prior to current pregnancy (AOR=5.6,95% CI:1.14-28.1, P=0.034), mother’s advanced WHO clinical stage of HIV at enrollment to PMTCT(AOR: 10.5; 95% CI: 1.4,81, p=0.022) were significantly associated with mother to childtransmission of HIV in this study. Conclusion Infant did not received nevirapine prophylaxis at birth, mothers who were at advancedWHO clinical stage of AIDS, and mothers who did not received ARV prior to pregnancy were athigher risk of mother to child transmission of HIV infection. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/23993 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Abeba University | en_US |
| dc.subject | HIV, infants | en_US |
| dc.title | Mother- to-Child Transmission of HIV and Associated Factor among Exposed Infants on Follow-up in Jinka town Health Facilities, South Omo zone, South Ethiopia , 2020. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |