KAIS 2007 1 - Kenya National AIDS & STI Control Programme ...

Prevention of Mother-to-ChildTransmission and Family Planning8.1 KEY FINDINGS• Of women whose last birth was between 2003-2007, 89.6% attended anantenatal clinic (ANC) at least once during pregnancy.• HIV testing at ANCs increased from 50.4% of all ANC attendees in 2003 to78.6% in 2007.• ANC testing accounted for a substantial proportion of HIV testing amongwomen: 61.5% of women aged 15-49 years were tested for HIV at an ANCbetween 2003-2007, and of these women, 63.8% had only ever tested at anANC.• HIV prevalence was 9.0% among women who reported being pregnant at thetime of KAIS.• Among HIV-uninfected pregnant or breastfeeding women who reportedhaving unprotected sex in the 12 months before the survey, 72.7% and77.6% of their sexual relationships, respectively, were with partners ofunknown HIV status.*• Of women aged 15-49 years, 50.9% did not want a child ever in the futureand 19.6% did not want a child in the next two years; when these twogroups of women were combined for analysis, results showed that only45.0% were using modern contraception.• Of women self-reporting a positive HIV test, 76.3% did not want a child everin the future and 10.5% did not want a child in the next two years; whenthese two groups of women were combined for analysis, results showedthat only 52.0% were using modern contraception.* A “partner of unknown status” refers to a partner who had never been tested for HIV, whose testing history wasunknown to the respondent, or whose HIV test result was unknown to the respondent.KAIS 2007 137