Association between HIV programs and quality of maternal health inputs and processes in Kenya.

Am J Public Health

At the time of the study, Margaret E. Kruk and Aleksandra Jakubowski were with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Miriam Rabkin and Wafaa El-Sadr are with the Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, Columbia University, New York. At the time of this research, Davies O. Kimanga was with the National AIDS & STI Control Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. Francis Kundu and Vane Lumumba are with the National Council for Population and Development, Nairobi. Travis Lim is with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA. Tom Oluoch and Katherine A. Robinson are with the CDC, Nairobi.

Published: April 2015

We assessed whether quality of maternal and newborn health services is influenced by presence of HIV programs at Kenyan health facilities using data from a national facility survey. Facilities that provided services to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission had better prenatal and postnatal care inputs, such as infrastructure and supplies, and those providing antiretroviral therapy had better quality of prenatal and postnatal care processes. HIV-related programs may have benefits for quality of care for related services in the health system.

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