Male involvement in prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS services among married men in Kyaikmaraw Township, Mon State, Myanmar

Abstract

The cross sectional descriptive study was collected in Kyaikmaraw Township, Mon State, Myanmar. Two hundred and fifty two married men of age (15-60) asked by using structure interview questionnaire. The objectives of the study are 1) To assess the knowledge about HIV/AIDS and perception and 2) to find out the involvement of male in prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTC) of HIV/AIDS services utilization. Among married men age from (15 to 60) years, minimum age was 17 years and maximum age was 52 years with a mean age of 31.9 years, 52% of respondents were (25-35) years old and most of the respondents were secondary school and high school. About 44% are working in labor farm, 71% answer that they are not enough money for monthly expenses but no debt. More than two third had (1-3) children. Most of the respondents 79% had poor level of knowledge, 16.7% of respondents had moderate level of knowledge. The percentage of male involvement in PMCT were 27.4% in accompany for counseling of PMCT with wife, 36% in discuss about PMCT services with wife respectively. There are significant associations between education at p-value 0.058, occupation at p-value 0.006, number of children p-value 0.04, and level of knowledge at p-value 0.021and discuss with wife about PMCT services. Besides this, in the perceived susceptibility there was an association between HIV/AIDS can transmit via infected wife at p-value 0.01 and can get infection from receiving blood of infected donor's blood at p-value 0.003 and perceived barriers of “worried for confidential” at p-value 0.03. But there was no association between independent variables and accompany for counseling of PMCT services with wife