Fertility desire and associated factors among women of reproductive age living with HIV/AIDS attending antiretroviral therapy clinic in Arba Minch General Hospital, South Ethiopia, 2021
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Disasa Tufa; Biresaw Wassihun; Direslgne Misker; Kassaw Beyene
- Source
- Frontiers in Global Women's Health, Vol 4 (2023)
- Subject
- women living with HIV
antiretroviral
fertility desire
Arba Minch
Ethiopia
Gynecology and obstetrics
RG1-991
Women. Feminism
HQ1101-2030.7
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2673-5059
BackgroundThe fertility desire of women living with HIV to have children can have significant implications for public health. Despite the increase in the number of HIV-positive women, the issues of their fertility desire have not been well-studied. This study aims to assess fertility desire and associated factors among women living with HIV/AIDS.MethodsA facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted from 1 May to 30 July 2021. The researchers employed a systematic sampling technique. The data were gathered and entered into EpiData 3.1 software, and subsequently exported to the statistical package for social science version 25 for analysis. Binary logistic regression analyses were used to identify the factors involved, and a p-value of