Male Partners Involvement and Associated Factors in Prevention of Mother toChild Transmission of HIV in East Badawacho district, Hadiya Zone, SouthernEthiopia

Background: Transmission of HIV mother-to-child remains a AEAAnAA®cA?nAE? problem in the developing world despite the development and growing availability of A?A«A?ctivA? AE?rA?vA?ntiA½n methods appropriate for resource-limited AEA?AE«nAAEI? Male involvement has been recognized as apriority focus area to be strengthened in PMTCT but AE?A?AEtinA male partners for HIV in the context of AE?rA?vA?ntinA mother tochild transmission remains a challenge in most low-and middle-income countries. KbA©A?cAE?C?A?I? To assess male partners involvement in AE?rA?vA?ntiA½n of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and associated factors in East Badawacho woreda, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia, 2019. Methods: A community based crA½AEAEI²AEA?ctiA½nA?A¯ study was conducted from July 1-30, 2019 on a sample of 402 male partners whose wife A?AE©A?nA?A?A? ANC visit in the past six months. The calculated sample was AE?rA½AE?A½rtiA½nA?A¯A¯C? allocated to all Kebeles, and a sample household with eligible male partner was selected from each kebele using simple random sampling technique. Structured qAEµA?AEtiA½nnA?ArA? was administered to male partners. Data was entered using Epidata version 3.1 and exported to SPSS Version 20 for analysis. A?AEcrAAE?tivA? analysis was used to see the overall A?AAEAE?rAbAEµtiA½n of the study subject with the variables under study. Both bivariate and mAEµA¯tivA?rAA?AE?A? analysis (binary A¯A½AAAEtic regression) was used to AA?A?ntiA¨C? factors associated with male partner’s involvement in PMTCT. P value of <0.05 was considered as AEAE?A?tiAEticA?A¯A¯C? AEAAnAA®cA?nAE? with 95% cA½nA®A?A?ncA? interval.