Abstract

The overall objective of this study was to analyze the determinants of willingness of women to adhere to the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in Malawi. The study used two sources of data, namely ART registers and primary data obtained from the in-depth interviews with randomly chosen respondents in 13 health centers in Zomba district. The study used the following as the independent variables: Income level of the woman/household, Sex of the head of the household, Education level of the woman, Age of the woman, Parity of the woman, membership of the woman to the PLHIV support group, Distance covered by the woman to go to the health centers to access health care, Location of the woman and Involvement of the woman in Mother- Infant- Pair as a PMTCT strategy in Malawi in a logistic regression model. Main findings of this Analysis show that Mother – Infant – Pair (MIP), Sex of the head of the household, Age of the woman, programmes that can enhance attainment of education by females, encouragement of the PLHIV women to be members of PLHIV support groups, reduction of the distances covered by women when accessing health services, parity of the woman thus mobilization of the members of the community especially women living with HIV to eschew from having desire of having many children and the discouragement of the act of giving birth by young women, have a significant probability of reducing the rate of defaulting on the adherence to utilization of recommended PMTCT services in Malawi.

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School	: School of Law, Economics and Government
Issued Date	: 2018

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