PMID- 34170939
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20211116
LR  - 20211116
IS  - 1932-6203 (Electronic)
IS  - 1932-6203 (Linking)
VI  - 16
IP  - 6
DP  - 2021
TI  - Spatial pattern and determinants of sufficient knowledge of mother to child 
      transmission of HIV and its prevention among Nigerian women.
PG  - e0253705
LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0253705 [doi]
LID - e0253705
AB  - The lack of sufficient knowledge of mother to child transmission (MTCT) of human 
      immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among pregnant women is considered a major 
      contributor to new pediatric HIV infections globally, and increasing HIV related 
      infant mortality especially in developing countries. Nigeria has the highest 
      number of new HIV infections among children in the world. This study was designed 
      to examine the spatial pattern and determinants of acquisition of sufficient 
      knowledge of MTCT and prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) in 
      Nigeria. The data used in the study were extracted from the 2018 Nigeria 
      Democratic Health Survey. The spatial modeling was through a Bayesian approach 
      with appropriate prior distributions assigned to the different parameters of the 
      model and inference was through the integrated nested Laplace approximation 
      technique (INLA). Results show considerable spatial variability in the 
      acquisition of sufficient knowledge of MTCT and its prevention with women in the 
      southwestern and southeastern part of the country having higher likelihood. The 
      nonlinear effects findings show that acquisition of sufficient knowledge of MTCT 
      and PMTCT increased with age of women and peaked at around age 35yearswhere it 
      thereafter dropped drastically among the older women. Furthermore, sufficient 
      knowledge of MTCT and PMTCT was found to be driven by ethnicity, respondents' 
      education and wealth status.
FAU - Olopha, Paul Omoh
AU  - Olopha PO
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1521-1532
AD  - Department of Statistics, The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria.
FAU - Fasoranbaku, Akin Olusoga
AU  - Fasoranbaku AO
AD  - Department of Statistics, The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria.
FAU - Gayawan, Ezra
AU  - Gayawan E
AD  - Department of Statistics, The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210625
PL  - United States
TA  - PLoS One
JT  - PloS one
JID - 101285081
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Female
MH  - HIV Infections/epidemiology/*transmission
MH  - *Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical
MH  - Male
MH  - Nigeria/epidemiology
MH  - Pregnancy
MH  - *Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
PMC - PMC8232538
COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
EDAT- 2021/06/26 06:00
MHDA- 2021/11/17 06:00
PMCR- 2021/06/25
CRDT- 2021/06/25 17:18
PHST- 2021/01/22 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/06/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/06/25 17:18 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/06/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/11/17 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/06/25 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - PONE-D-21-02315 [pii]
AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0253705 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - PLoS One. 2021 Jun 25;16(6):e0253705. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253705. 
      eCollection 2021.