Antenatal patients' attitudes to HIV testing for their male partners: a cross-sectional questionnaire survey from Uganda.

摘要

Dhont and colleagues found a 16% prevalence of HIV in fertile women and 43% in infertile women at Kigali hospital, Rwanda. Increasing HIV testing might also help combat the problem of vertical HIV transmission, but acceptability of HIV testing may be problematic. We conducted a survey to investigate the attitudes of pregnant women attending Jinja Hospital, Uganda, to having their male partners tested for HIV. In July 2010 following a review by Jinja Hospital Research Ethics Committee, a medical student (ABV) invited consecutive pregnant women attending the antenatal clinic to read a patient information leaflet and complete a short, confidential questionnaire. Women who could not read English had the information sheet and questions translated for them by the midwives into a local Ugandan language, usually Luganda or Lusoga.