Abstract
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest number of mother to child transmissions of HIV. PMTCT programme plays a big role in reducing the MTCT nevertheless its effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa depends on involvement of male partners considering the fact that men are decision makers in African families. They make important decisions that have big impact on women’s health. Male partner involvement has been seen to increase uptake of PMTCT services and their involvement underscores their importance in reducing HIV infection in children. Recently many sub-Saharan countries adopted male partner involvement in PMTCT programme with an aim of increasing the uptake of PMTCT services. The programme has made some progress in improving the effectiveness of PMTCT services. On the other hand the strategy is facing a lot of challenges, the biggest being low male partner involvement. This article therefore seeks to review the successes and challenges faced by male involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa. It also proposes the way forward in order to improve its effectiveness. We used peer reviewed articles of research studies conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa and other related reliable sources of data to write the paper.
Highlights
HIV still remains a major challenge globally despite decades of advocacy, awareness raising and investing in programmes to control the spread of HIV
Literature has shown that male partner involvement in Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) is very important for successful implementation of the programme
Literature has shown that countries which are doing well in PMTCT programme already adopted male partner involvement
Summary
HIV still remains a major challenge globally despite decades of advocacy, awareness raising and investing in programmes to control the spread of HIV. Some HIV positive women who had courage to inform their husbands, faced divorce, violence or accused of infidelity, some were not even allowed to continue with PMTCT interventions. This review seeks to establish the impact of male partner involvement in PMTCT in terms of progress made by exploring successes and challenges of the program and suggesting recommendations to improve the programme in sub-Saharan Africa. It uses peer reviewed articles of research studies conducted in subSaharan Africa and other reliable sources of data such as WHO, UNICEF and UNAIDS
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