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World Health Survey 2003
Wave 0

Ghana, 2003
Reference ID
GHA_2003_WHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
World Health Organization (WHO)
Collections
Health
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Feb 13, 2013
Last modified
Dec 05, 2013
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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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