Table 1.
Indicators for monitoring and evaluation of programme to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV used by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
| Where information recorded | Location of services and registers | |
|---|---|---|
| Health facility indicators | ||
| No of health facilities providing services to prevent transmission in past 12 months | Programme reports and health facility surveys | Various |
| No (%) of practising skilled health workers in antenatal care who have received training in preventing transmission in past 24 months | ||
| No of health facilities with adequate capacity to monitor and accurately record services | ||
| No of maternity facilities with appropriate referrals at the institutional level to link HIV infected women and their infants to care and support services | ||
| No of facilities that offer appropriate advice on infant feeding during post-test counselling | ||
| No of antenatal clinics providing family planning advice services during post-test counselling | ||
| No of condoms distributed in antenatal clinics | ||
| Patient indicators | ||
| No of pregnant women who attend at least one antenatal clinic visit at a programme site | Antenatal care enrolment register | Antenatal care |
| No of pregnant women who receive counselling for HIV testing | Voluntary counselling and testing register | |
| No of pregnant women accepting testing for HIV | Voluntary counselling register/HIV testing laboratory register | Antenatal care/labour ward |
| No of pregnant women testing positive for HIV | ||
| No of pregnant women receiving HIV test results and post-test counselling | ||
| No of women who receive counselling for recommended infant feeding practices | Voluntary counselling and testing register | |
| % of HIV infected pregnant women receiving complete course of antiretroviral prophylaxis to reduce risk of mother to child transmission | Antiretroviral register/labour ward delivery register | |
| No of infants born to HIV infected mothers who receive cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for the first year of life | Cotrimoxazole register | Maternal and child health |
| % of HIV infected children born to HIV infected mothers: programme impact indicator | Patient register | |