Gossa, Tezeta (2010) Fertility Needs Assessment among People Living with HIV/AIDS in Four Regional Hospitals, Addis Ababa. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Back ground: Despite the increased emphasis on ART and other health care services for HIV infected individual, issues of fertility and child bearing have received relatively little attention. In particular, little is known about actual fertility desire and determinants of fertility desires among HIV- infected women and men who are receiving ART. The desire of infected persons to have children in the future has significant implication for the transmission of HIV to sexual partners or newborns. Objective: To assess fertility needs of people living with HIV/AIDS who were on ART in four Regional Hospitals of Addis Ababa. Methods: The study was conducted in Addis Ababa from August 2009 to June 2010. It was a cross-sectional study supplemented by qualitative in-depth interview on a sample size of 444. Quota sampling technique was used to select the study participants. Data were entered and cleaned using EPI info version 3.4.3 and analyzed using SPSS version 15.0 for windows. Result: Nearly half of the study subjects (46.2%), female 101(49.3%) and men104 (50.7%) desired to have children. Multivariate analyses indicate that those respondents who were married/ in relation and single were significant associated with desire for children (adjusted OR: 2.60, 95% CI: 1.47- 4.59) and (adjusted OR: 2.93, 95% CI: 1.47-5.85), respectively and those who had one child or none were also more likely to desire children than those who had two or more children (adjusted OR: 18.31, 95% CI: 10.17-32.96) Conclusion: A substantial proportion of HIV-infected women and men receiving ART in the study would like to have children in the future. The fact that many HIV- infected adults desire to have children has important implication for the prevention of vertical and heterosexual transmission of HIV and the need of incorporating fertility- related counseling as well as advice regarding safe conception and child birth and services like PMTCT as appropriate, in to HIV treatment services
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2018 12:28 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2018 12:28 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/8257 |
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