World Health Survey 2003
Wave 0

Ghana, 2003

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GHA_2003_WHS_v01_M

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HIV counseling (q6406)

Data file: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

Valid: 548

Invalid: 3390

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 1463

End: 1466

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

During your antenatal care visits for your pregnancy with (NAME), were you given any information or counselled about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	190	34.7%
5	No	358	65.3%
Sysmiss		3390

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

This question is only asked to women who received antenatal care for their last pregnancy in the last two years. AIDS is an illness caused by the HIV virus, which weakens the immune system and leads to death through secondary infections, such as pneumonia. It is transmitted sexually or through contact with contaminated blood. It can also be transmitted from a mother to a child during pregnancy, during delivery or by breast feeding. Information on voluntary HIV counselling and testing helps to assess efforts to curb mother-to-child transmission of HIV and improve the health of mothers and babies. This question asks about counselling offered during antenatal care visits and tries to get an idea of how mother-to-child transmission is being addressed.

Description

Universe

Questions to be asked to women of reproductive age (18-49 years) with a live birth in last 2 years only.

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World Health Survey 2003 Wave 0