Assessment of Male Partner’s Involvement in Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Associated Factors Among Males in PMTCT Services

Background: Maintaining an adequate and safe Prevention Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV services and male partner’s involvement in PMTCT services are an issue of concern to local health planner especially with increase in population size and an increase in the number of medical facilities. Objectives: To describes whether methodological issues such as sample Characteristics, Outcome measures, and mechanisms causing change in the outcome measures could explain some of the inconsistent findings evident on. Methods: This review bases peer reviewed journal articles on “Assessment of Male partner’s involvement in Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Associated Factors among Males in PMTCT services.” which are published between Sep, 2009 and February, 2015. Key words such as “Male partner”, “PMTCT”, “Male involvement”, “ANC”, “MTCT”, and “HIV” were used to search the articles from different websites. A total of 106 articles were obtained. Then titles, summary or abstract, and the whole body of each of the articles were checked for their relevance to be included in the analyses. Finally, a total of 19 articles were found to be eligible to be included in the analyses. In this regards, we searched databases of MEDLINE, Pub Med. Elsevier, Google, BMC, PMC, and Psych Info search Engines. Result: From 106 identified studies, 19 met the inclusion criteria. The majority of the studies 7 (37. 1%) identified the determinants of male partners’ involvement in maternal and child health activities, focusing specifically on HIV prevention of maternal to child transmission (PMTCT) in Africa. Most of the reviewed articles 6 (31. 6%) selected a minimum sample size of 100 (20%) participants However, five of the total reviewed articles (26. 3%) were selected the maximum sampled size of 500 participants. The study result reviewed studies sought to generalize from the mentioned articles by identifying a wide variety of male partner’s involvement in PMTCT services and associated factors in PMTCT in Africa. Conclusion: Many challenges to increase male involvement in PMTCT (1) enhance male participation in the process, the adherence rate of mothers towards PMTCT care and support was fair, highlight the male participation in PMTCT programs, and male partner involvement in ANC/PMTCT is low. Male partner’s involvement in PMTCT services is a well-accepted issue and has important positive outcomes on several of health discipline.