AIDS: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, ART: Anti-Retroviral Therapy, MTCT: Mother To Child Transmission, PMTCT: Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission
Ethics Approval and consent to participate
This study was approved by ethical review committee of university of Gondar and permission was obtained from Mecha woreda health office. Then informed written consent and assent were taken from the study participants.
Availability of data and material
The datasets generated during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Funding
The authors have no support or funding to report
Acknowledgement
We would like to acknowledge University of Gondar for giving a chance to undertake this study.We are also thankful to all data collectors and supervisors for their commitment and research participants for their time. We also extend our gratitude to the study participants for sharing the information.
Consent for publication
Not applicable
Competing interests
We, the authors declare that we didn’t have competing interests.
Authors’ contributions
TL was investigator, involved in proposal writing, designing, and recruitment and training of supervisors and data collectors, analysis and write-up of the manuscript. EC, ML, TY and HT contributed in the designing of the methodology, supervision and involved in the analysis stage of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Tewachew Muche Liyeh (TL) ,Lecturer ,Department of Midwifery, college of health sciences, Debre Tabor University, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia
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Endeshaw Admasu Cherkose (EC):Assistant Professor of reproductive health ,Department of Midwifery, college of medicine and health sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
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Miteku Andualem Limenih(ML): lecturer, Department of Midwifery, college of medicine and healthsciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
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Tigist Seid Yimer (TY):Lecturer, Department of Midwifery, college of health sciences, Debre TaborUniversity, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia
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Hailemariam Demewozu Tebeje (HT):Lecturer, Department of Midwifery, college of medicine and health sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
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