Vietnam Population and AIDS Indicator Survey 2005 ... - Measure DHS

Women who become pregnant have an opportunity to receive counseling when they attend
antenatal clinics and after counseling, if they consent, they have an opportunity for testing and knowing
their status. Survey data show in Table 6.5 that among women who delivered a baby in the two years
preceding the survey, 12 percent received HIV counseling during an antenatal care visit. Ten percent of
women who gave a birth in the two years prior to the survey were offered an HIV test, accepted the offer,
and received the results. However, fewer women received both counseling and testing; only 6 percent
were counseled during an antenatal care visit, were offered an HIV test, accepted the offer, and received
the results. Women in the South are more likely than women in the North and Central regions to have
received HIV counseling, and to have received the result of an HIV test during an antenatal visit. Of the
targeted provinces, Ha Noi stands out; 4 in 10 women were counseled during an antenatal care visit, and 6
in 10 were tested for HIV and received the results. This does indicate that some women in Ha Noi are
being tested for HIV without receiving counseling. It should be noted that while the number of women
who gave birth in the last 2 years shown in Table 6.5 is quite low among each of the targeted provinces,
the number of unweighted cases (not shown) is large enough to report the figures.
Table 6.5 Pregnant women counseled and tested for HIV
Among women who gave birth in the two years preceding the survey, percentage who received HIV
counseling during antenatal care for their most recent birth, and percentage who accepted an offer of HIV
testing, whether or not they received their test results, by background characteristics, Vietnam 2005
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Percentage who were Percentage
Percentage offered and accepted who were
who an HIV tesst during counseled,
received HIV antental care and who: 2 accepted Number of
counseling ––––––––––––––––––––––– an offer women who
during Did not for HIV test, gave birth
Background antenatal Received receive and received in the last
characteristic care 1 results results results 2, 3 2 years 4
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Age
15-24 7.5 4.8 0.6 2.4 293
15-19 (3.4) (0.4) (0.0) (0.0) 39
20-24 8.1 5.4 0.7 2.8 254
25-29 14.1 14.6 0.4 9.2 228
30-39 17.2 11.0 1.5 7.7 264
40-49 * * * * 18
Education
Never attended school 3.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 64
Primary 9.8 6.2 0.0 4.2 186
Secondary 13.3 11.2 0.6 6.5 482
More than secondary 21.4 19.4 5.1 13.0 71
Residence
Urban 22.2 28.2 2.0 15.1 135
Rural 10.4 6.1 0.6 4.2 667
Region
North 10.0 8.7 0.7 4.5 333
Central 8.3 5.7 1.1 4.3 229
South 19.6 15.4 0.7 9.7 240
Targeted provinces
Ha Noi 39.2 62.9 0.0 32.9 22
Ho Chi Minh City (34.1) (42.3) (0.0) (20.8) 39
Hai Phong 24.4 22.9 6.6 12.2 16
Quang Ninh 23.4 20.7 0.0 14.4 10
Total 12.4 9.8 0.8 6.0 803
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Note: Figures in parentheses are based on 25-49 unweighted cases. An asterisk indicates that a figure is
based on fewer than 25 unweighted cases and has been suppressed.
1
In this context, "counseled" means that someone talked with the respondent about all three of the following
topics: 1) babies getting the AIDS virus from their mother, 2) preventing the virus, and 3) getting tested for
the virus
2 Only women who were offered the test are included here; women who were either required or asked for
the test are excluded from this measure
3
Corresponds to UNAIDS Mother to Child Transmission Indicator 1 “Pregnant women counseled and tested”
4
Denominator for percentages includes women who did not receive antenatal care for their last birth in the
past two years
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