Table 1.

Sample Questions from Focus Groups

1. How do the male partners encourage and/ordiscourage their female partners to give birth at the health units?

2. Would you [for woman only] like your husbands to accompany you, when you are pregnant to the antenatal care? Why? 3. Would you [for men only] like to accompany your wife to antenatal care? Why?

3. In your opinion, would men like to be involved in the antenatal consultations of their wives, or not? What are the reasons that make you think that way?

4. If a man accompanies his wife to the health unit, for the antenatal consultation, what do other men think about him? What do their partners think of them? What do the health providers think?

5. What do you think could be done to encourage men to accompany their pregnant wives to antenatal care?

6. Which could be the reasons that few partners (men and women) take the HIV test together?

7. What could be done to encourage couples to take the HIV test together?