Table 2.
Willingness to enroll and participate in birth testing in Southern Province, Zambia, 2016–2018
| Livingstone City | Choma Town | Macha Area | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitald | Urban Health Centers | Hospital | Urban Health Center | Hospital | Rural Health Centers | |
| Number of pregnant women living with HIV approached to participate in the study | 513 | 315 | 70 | 39 | 256 | 210 |
| Number of women agreed to participatea | 485 (94.5) | 305 (96.8) | 63 (90.0) | 38 (97.4) | 190 (74.2) | 209 (99.5) |
| Number of women declineda | 28 (5.5) | 10 (3.2) | 7 (10.0) | 1 (2.6) | 66 (25.8) | 1 (0.5) |
| Reasons declinedb,c | ||||||
| Doesn’t want child tested at birth | 10 (35.7/1.9) | 4 (40.0/1.3) | 5 (71.4/7.1) | 1 (100.0/2.6) | 21 (31.8/8.2) | 0 |
| Prefers child to be tested at post-natal clinic | 0 | 0 | 1 (14.3/1.4) | 0 | 10 (15.2/3.9) | 0 |
| Prefers not to participate in research | 11 (39.3/2.1) | 4 (40.0/1.3) | 1 (14.3/1.4) | 0 | 5 (7.6/2.0) | 1 (100.0/.5) |
| Prefers not to have extra blood drawn | 0 | 2 (20.0/0.6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Needs to ask husband’s permission/Husband refused | 4 (14.3/0.8) | 1 (10.0/0.3) | 0 | 0 | 26 (39.4/10.2) | 0 |
| Mother in a hurry to get home | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 (7.6/2.0) | 0 |
| Other/unknown | 3 (10.7/0.6) | 1 (10.0/0.3) | 0 | 0 | 1 (1.5/0.4) | 0 |
a Numbers represent n (% among women approached)
b Multiple reasons could be specified
c Numbers represent n (% among women who declined / among all women approached)
d Birth testing was a routine procedure at the hospital in Livingstone; at all other sites, birth testing was performed as a study procedure