ArticleAfrican health sciences2017
Prevalence and predictors of unknown HIV status among women delivering in Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
Article in African health sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.
- Compliance with maternal HIV retesting for pregnant women attending care in selected health facilities in Namutumba district, Uganda.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Maternal HIV retesting during antenatal care in selected health facilities in Mayuge district, Uganda: A cross-sectional study.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Capacity assessment for provision of quality sexual reproductive health and HIV-integrated services in Karamoja, Uganda.African health sciences · 2020Article
- Knowledge of HIV status among mothers accompanying their infants for immunization in Machakos, Kenya, 2014.East African journal of applied health monitoring and evaluation · 2020Article
- HIV and NCDs: inevitable interaction in resource limited settings.African health sciences · 2017Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionKnowledge of a person's HIV status during pregnancy is critical for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV.
objectivesTo determine the prevalence and factors associated with unknown HIV status among women delivering in Mulago Hospital.
methodsThis was a cross-sectional study of women that had just delivered. The women's demographic characteristics, health seeking behaviour, health system-related factors and knowledge on PMTCT were collected. Fisher's exact test, Wilcoxon rank sum test and logistic regression were used to test associations.
resultsThe prevalence of unknown HIV status was 2.6% (10/382). Attending ANC at higher level facilities (OR =0.1 95% CI 0.0 - 0.4) and having been counselled for HIV testing during ANC (OR=0.1, 95% CI 0.0 - 0.4) were associated with likelihood of having a known HIV status. Out of the ten women with unknown HIV status, 4/6 who attended ANC in public/government accredited health facilities "opted out" of HIV testing due to personal reasons. Among the four who attended ANC in private clinics, two were not offered HIV testing and one "opted out".
conclusionMost participants had a known HIV status at labour (97%). Private clinics need to be supported to provide free quality HCT services in ANC.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.