Living Standards Survey IV 1998-1999 - World Bank SHIP Harmonized Dataset

Ghana, 1998 - 1999

Reference ID

GHA_1998_GLSS_v01_M_v01_A_SHIP

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)

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Apr 25, 2019

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HIV counseling (q6406)

Data file: WHS-China_F5

Overview

Valid: 99

Invalid: 3894

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

During your antenatal care visits for your pregnancy with (NAME), were you given any information or counselled about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS?

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
5	No
Sysmiss

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

This question is only asked to women who received antenatal care for their last pregnancy in the last two years. AIDS is an illness caused by the HIV virus, which weakens the immune system and leads to death through secondary infections, such as pneumonia. It is transmitted sexually or through contact with contaminated blood. It can also be transmitted from a mother to a child during pregnancy, during delivery or by breast feeding. Information on voluntary HIV counselling and testing helps to assess efforts to curb mother-to-child transmission of HIV and improve the health of mothers and babies. This question asks about counselling offered during antenatal care visits and tries to get an idea of how mother-to-child transmission is being addressed.

Description

Universe

Questions to be asked to women of reproductive age (18-49 years) with a live birth in last 2 years only.