Fig 1.
Flow of patient records’ review for screening of anemia, syphilis and analysis for CD4+ T-cell count and the results. Anemia is defined as a hemoglobin <8mg/dl. Eligibility for ART is defined as having a CD4+ T-cell count <351/mg/μL. ANC, antenatal care—ART, antiretroviral therapy.
Table 1.
Characteristics of the study population (n = 1673).
Table 2.
Characteristics of the study health facilities.
Table 3.
Coverage of registered screening tests among the study population.
Fig 2.
Cascade HIV/ART services for HIV positive pregnant women, pre-and post-introduction of POC CD4+ T-cell count.
Cascade HIV/ART services for HIV positive pregnant women, from time of registration of HIV status to ART initiation, pre-(2010) and post-(2012) introduction of the point-of-care testing for CD4+ T-cell enumeration performed at the maternal and child health services. All proportions are calculated with the denominator being the number of women diagnosed with HIV. Eligibility for ART is defined as CD4+ T-cell count <351cells/μL. PW—Pregnant Women; ART—Antiretroviral Treatment.
Table 4.
Coverage of ART initiation for ART-eligible women, registered at the health facility.
Table 5.
Acceptability of POC tests performed at MCH by MCH nurses (n = 33) and laboratory technicians (n = 8), perceived pre-POC and actual post-POC implementation at MCH.